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API Testing and Development with Postman

You're reading from   API Testing and Development with Postman API creation, testing, debugging, and management made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617908
Length 358 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dave Westerveld is a developer with many years of testing experience. He has been involved in the testing of numerous projects and he excels at solving automation problems in team environments. He has worked with well-established products and early-stage initiatives, and he is passionate about using automation to improve product quality and to help teams work more efficiently in developing high-value software. Dave has also worked as a developer integrating third-party APIs into applications. Having worked on both the testing and development sides of the SDLC, he has an intimate knowledge of what it takes to create quality code.
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Preface 1. API Terminology and Types 2. API Documentation and Design FREE CHAPTER 3. OpenAPI and API Specifications 4. Considerations for Good API Test Automation 5. Understanding Authorization Options 6. Creating Test Validation Scripts 7. Data-Driven Testing 8. Workflow Testing 9. Running API Tests in CI with Newman 10. Monitoring APIs with Postman 11. Testing an Existing API 12. Creating and Using Mock Servers in Postman 13. Using Contract Testing to Verify an API 14. API Security Testing 15. Performance Testing an API 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Index

A

Akamai EdgeGrid

reference link 113

using 113

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 102

API actions

DELETE 9

GET 9

HEAD 9

OPTIONS 9

PATCH 9

POST 9

PUT 9

API Blueprint 52

reference link 52

API bugs

example 219

finding 213-217

service, resetting 218, 219

testing 215-217

tests, setting up 214

API calls

challenge 17

idempotent call 3-5

making 14

making, to test application 16

safe request 3-5

test application, setting up 15

types 3

API consumer 257

API description documents 51

API description format 51

API design example 42

e-commerce API, designing 42, 43

API documentation 36

best practices 40, 41

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) 42

with Postman 37-40

API keys

using 101

API request structure 7

actions 9

body 13

endpoints 8, 9

headers 11, 12

parameters 10

query parameters 10, 11

request parameters 10

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Dave Westerveld is a developer with many years of testing experience. He has been involved in the testing of numerous projects and he excels at solving automation problems in team environments. He has worked with well-established products and early-stage initiatives, and he is passionate about using automation to improve product quality and to help teams work more efficiently in developing high-value software. Dave has also worked as a developer integrating third-party APIs into applications. Having worked on both the testing and development sides of the SDLC, he has an intimate knowledge of what it takes to create quality code.
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