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API Testing and Development with Postman

You're reading from   API Testing and Development with Postman API creation, testing, debugging, and management made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617908
Length 358 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dave Westerveld Dave Westerveld
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. API Terminology and Types 2. API Documentation and Design FREE CHAPTER 3. OpenAPI and API Specifications 4. Considerations for Good API Test Automation 5. Understanding Authorization Options 6. Creating Test Validation Scripts 7. Data-Driven Testing 8. Workflow Testing 9. Running API Tests in CI with Newman 10. Monitoring APIs with Postman 11. Testing an Existing API 12. Creating and Using Mock Servers in Postman 13. Using Contract Testing to Verify an API 14. API Security Testing 15. Performance Testing an API 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Running performance tests in postman

Now that we have covered some of the different types of performance testing, let’s try running some performance tests in Postman. You can run a very simple performance test by going to a collection, clicking on Run, and then, on the Performance tab, setting up a simple load profile like one of those discussed above and hitting Run.

When running this kind of load, Postman will use the same input data for each of the different users that is simulates. However, if you want a bit more control and variation in the data, you can create a data file to control this. We will use the todo list application mentioned earlier:

  1. Create a todo list item in the application and get the ID of it (for this example, I will use an ID of 1).
  2. Create a collection, and in the collection, create a request.
  3. Set the URL to {{url}}/tasks/1 and the type to PUT.
  4. Add this code to the Body of the request:
    {
        "description&quot...
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