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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

Summary

This chapter has introduced you to the concept of using mock servers in Postman. You have seen how to set up a mock server in Postman. You have learned about making the server private or public. You have also learned a lot about how to set up data for your mock servers.

In this chapter, I’ve shown you how to create very simple mocks that respond with a static response every time they are called. I’ve shown you how to do more complex mocking where you can respond with more dynamic values. We also got into the details of how to respond with mock data that is a mix of dynamic and static data, and that has default responses if you don’t specify the full body of the request.

Mocks can be used for a variety of different purposes, and we explored some of the reasons you might use them and some things to be careful of when you work with them. We dove into some examples of using mocks for things like testing with third-party services, and we looked at how...

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