Using API specifications in Postman

You can use API specifications to simplify work in many areas. In this section, I will show you some things that you can do with them. You will learn how to create mocks and tests from a spec with only a few clicks. I will also show you how to use them to do some validation so that everything in your request and elements are consistent.

Since this book is about learning how to use Postman, this section will be devoted to showing you how to use OASes in Postman. However, it is worth noting that you can also use them in other cool and interesting ways as well. For example, in the Swagger Editor, if you go to the Generate Server menu, you can see several different languages , and you can generate the code in the language of your choice. You can also generate client-side code using one of the options from the Generate Client menu.

Another powerful Swagger tool that makes OASes is SwaggerHub (https://swagger.io/tools/swaggerhub/). This is a place...