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API Testing and Development with Postman

You're reading from   API Testing and Development with Postman A practical guide to creating, testing, and managing APIs for automated software testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569201
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: API Testing Theory and Terminology
2. Chapter 1: API Terminology and Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Principles of API Design 4. Chapter 3: OpenAPI and API Specifications 5. Chapter 4: Considerations for Good API Test Automation 6. Section 2: Using Postman When Working with an Existing API
7. Chapter 5: Understanding Authorization Options 8. Chapter 6: Creating Test Validation Scripts 9. Chapter 7: Data-Driven Testing 10. Chapter 8: Running API Tests in CI with Newman 11. Chapter 9: Monitoring APIs with Postman 12. Chapter 10: Testing an Existing API 13. Section 3: Using Postman to Develop an API
14. Chapter 11: Designing an API Specification 15. Chapter 12: Creating and Using a Mock Server in Postman 16. Chapter 13: Using Contract Testing to Verify an API 17. Chapter 14: Design and Create an API 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating tests and documentation for the API

Now that you have the basic structure of the API in place, the next challenge I want you to do is to set up some tests and documentation in Postman. As with all of these challenges, consider this to be a review of the things that you learned in this book and so try to work through this on your own. You can review the materials in Chapter 6, Creating Test Validation Scripts, to see ways to set up tests. You can also look through some sections of Chapter 2, Principles of API Design, to review how to document an API within Postman.

Challenge – Add tests to the API

For this challenge, I want you to add some tests to your API. Add some functional tests and some contract tests. You could spend a lot of time doing this, but don't go into excessive detail. Try to create a contract test collection and a test suite for your functional tests. Although you don't need to add a complete suite of tests, make sure to still add a...

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