Summary

This chapter has been filled with ideas on how to create long-lasting and valuable test automation. Over the next few chapters, I will take a lot of the foundations we've laid here and show you how to use various features in Postman. This will help you put the topics from this chapter into practice in your testing.You have learned the strengths that test automation brings to the table and how to use those strengths to your advantage when creating a test strategy. You have also learned about different types of API tests that you can create, including contract tests, integration tests, endpoint tests, and performance and security tests.I also showed you how to use Postman to organize and structure variables in ways that will help you understand what an API is doing and what you might need to do if tests fail. Variables are an important part of testing in Postman and so I showed you how to use them and where to store them. You now know which scope to use for different kinds...