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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

Understanding Newman run options

Now that you have Newman installed and running, it's time to look at how to use it in a variety of cases. You have already seen how to run it with a simple collection, but what about if you have environment variables or data-driven tests? In this section, I will show you how to run Postman collections, including collections that contain environment variables and data-driven tests. I will also show you some of the options that you can use to control Newman's behavior.

Using environments in Newman

Often, a collection will have variables defined in an environment. Requests in that collection will need those variables when they are run, but the values don't get exported with the collection. To see this in practice, you can modify the Test GET request in the Newman Test collection that you made earlier by following these steps:

  1. Create a new environment called Newman Test Env.
  2. Modify the URL field of the Test GET request to...
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