This lead to a discussion about API documentation and specifically tooling such as Swagger which we use heavily in our application. With our API request now populated in Postman we sent our first request to the automation playground API and began to explore the details of the HTTP response such as the body, status codes and timings. We also looked at how rather than manually creating a request in Postman we can port them across to Postman using a handy copy and paste trick to copy HTTP requests from browser devtools to Postman.
#Postman online pro
We also looked at some of the Postman Pro features around Collections that enable a team to sync collections and their requests across team member’s installations of Postman. With our API calls identified we began to explore the features of Postman by starting a new request and saving it to a feature called a Collection which enables us to store multiple requests that can later be shared or run in an automated fashion. So our next step was to use browser developer tools, a tool we explored in a previous AiTOnline to discover the API calls that are triggered in our application. Once we knew what we wanted to work with, our next step was to start learning about the API endpoints we ultimately were going to test with Postman. Changes in technology and development approaches such as Microservices and IoT mean API testing is a necessityįinally, we took a quick look at our automation playground to determine what APIs to begin playing with.A quick way to create data in an application.The ability to create more targeted tests for an API.We then took a step back to discuss why testing APIs is important as well as the value in testing APIs, such as:
So to start with we highighted where to get Postman from and to watch out for the deprecated Chrome app version of Postman that is no longer supported.
#Postman online professional
We’re no strangers to Postman ourselves with both of us using it heavily in projects both personal and professional for many years so our focus for this session was to share what we know about Postman with each other and our viewers. Introducing Postman - 3:40 - 9:21Īs Richard mentioned during our session, Postman is a massively popular tool when it comes to API testing with both Testers and Developers adopting the toolset for various activites.
#Postman online full
You can watch the full video or we’ve broken it down into the main sections below. As always we used our automation playground, Restful Booker Platform, to demonstrate how Postman enables us to test and explore web APIs. On the 11th July, we got together for our third AiTOnline and spent some time looking at the popular API testing tool. If you’ve missed any of the streams, you can view them on the AiTOnline YouTube channel. Each stream is followed up by a debrief to share highlights, features and thoughts on what was covered. AiTOnline is a fortnightly Twitch livestream ‘AiT Online’ in which Mark and Richard explore a different testing tool or automation tool.
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