Summary

Sending API requests allows you to inspect the responses and check that the API call is working the way you want it to. This is a manual process, though, and often you will need to create tests that can be run over and over again to check for product regressions. In order to do this, you need to be able to add checks to a request. This chapter has given you the ability to do that. You have learned how to add assertions that check various aspects of an API response. You have also learned about the various built in assertions that Postman provides to help you with this.

Sometimes you need to get some input data into a specific format in order to be able to check the things that you want to check. This chapter has also helped you learn how to set up scripts that can run before a request so that you can have everything in the necessary state. I also showed you how to run a request multiple times so that you can check many things in one request. This chapter also covered how...