Chapter 12: Creating and Using a Mock Server in Postman

Mock servers are used to help solve many different testing problems. They can help you control what inputs the UI gets, and they can be used to help drive better designs and to better understand how an API works. In many ways, the ability to create and use mock data is essential to good API testing and development. However, creating and using mock servers can also seem a bit intimidating if you are new to API testing concepts. It seems like a big and difficult thing to understand, let alone create and use.

I remember when I first started learning about mock servers and I thought that it was going to be a difficult and complex thing to use. I was expecting I would need to learn a whole bunch of new and different concepts in order to be able to use them. In some ways I did have to learn a lot of new stuff, but in other ways it turns out that if you have the right tools, creating and using mock servers is actually pretty easy...