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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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Dave Westerveld Dave Westerveld
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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

Challenge – data-driven testing with multiple APIs

I don't have the space to work through another full example, but I would like you to practice this a little more. I'm going to give you a challenge that I think will be, well, challenging. In this section, I will get you started with the challenge and give you a few hints to help you successfully solve it. In order to solve this challenge, you will need to use everything you have learned in this chapter about data-driven testing, but you will also need to use some of the information covered in Chapter 6, Creating Test Validation Scripts. In that chapter, I explained how to create tests that use multiple requests, and you are going to need that information to solve this challenge.

Challenge setup

For this challenge, I want you to use the Postman Echo API. This sample API has a number of different endpoints that you can use. In this case, you will use the Time Addition (https://postman-echo.com/time/add) and...

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