Postman is one of the most powerful tools we can use to query APIs and is mainly available to developers and enterprise teams. In this chapter, we will introduce Postman and show you how to use this tool to test and monitor a web service. Postman is described as an API-first solution with the industry's only complete API development environment. Next, we will learn how to use Postman to call a generic HTTP API. Then, we will learn how to import the OpenAPI Specification we generated in the previous chapter into Postman to automatically generate the API calls that are implemented in the catalog service.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Overview of Postman
- Importing a collection using OpenAPI
By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to use Postman to test and verify API responses through the Postman UI and by...
