Summary

This chapter has mostly been about working through an example of creating automated tests for a simple service, but it has taught a lot of lessons along the way. After learning about how to set up the testing site, you learned how to explore the API and find bugs in it. Once you were able to do that, we started to look at how you can automate tests. I gave you a challenge: creating a test automation suite for the test API. I hope you took the time to work through the challenge on your own and were able to learn a lot about what API test automation would look like.

I also walked you through an example of how I would have gone about solving the challenge. While going through my solution, you learned about how to set up collections in Postman in a way that organizes the requests so that they will be maintainable. You then learned some more about using environments to set up and share variables. I then walked you through creating tests for the different requests.

The tests...