API Testing with Postman

• An understanding of HTTP
• NodeJS/NPM experience

Audience

• Software Testers

Postman is a popular automation tool for API testing. Postman offers features that simplify each step of testing an API.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at software testers who wish to use Postman for API testing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Execute tests using automated requests and workflows.
• Define, develop, test, and observe an API using a version control system.
• Generate dynamic data in a request.
• Document and organize tests in collections for team revision.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

Postman and API Testing

• API testing vs Unit testing vs UI testing

Overview of Protocols Supported by Postman

• Soap, Rest, HTTP, GraphQL
• Path parameters vs query parameters

Fundamentals of API Testing

• Get requests
• Post requests
• Parameterize requests
• Collections

Preparing the Development Environment

• Installing and configuring Postman
• Registering in Postman

Creating API Requests

• Using a test API
• Passing additional data with a request
• Creating dynamic requests with variables
• Importing requests from a browser
• Debugging requests
• Saving and sharing requests
• Inspecting responses

Testing and Scripting

• Scripting a test
• Testing an API
• Refactoring tests

API Workflows With GitHub

• Setting up two-factor authentication on Postman and in GitHub
• Creating a simple workflow with GitHub API

Automating Test Running

• Sampling collection runner
• Using Postman monitors
• Installing NewMan
• Running a collection on Newman and generating a report

Summary and Conclusion