Postman. From simple API test to end to end scenario

Postman. From simple API test to end to end scenario

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  POSTMAN The Dark Knightof API testing From simple API test to E2E scenario
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  “Tonight you areall going to be part of a social experiment”
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  What is API Applicationprogramming interface. A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. Specifies how software components should interact. There are many different types of APIs for operating systems, applications or websites. “Before I learned software development, API sounded like a kind of beer. Today I use the term so often that I have in fact recently tried to order an API at a bar. The bartender’s response was to throw a 404: resource not found.” Petr Gazarov, freeCodeCamp
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  SOAP API implementation approaches REST RepresentationalState Transfer Only works on top of the HTTP CRUD (HTTP-requests) XML, JSON, text Efficiency, less network traffic Lack of standardization Hard to enforce security Simple Object Access Protocol Protocol independent WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Structured XML XML overhead in Network Not human readable Hard to implement
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  Request - Response
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  Send request
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  View response
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  Examples of APItests Status: the correct response code was returned Performance: the response was returned within a certain time Syntax: the content type of the returned content was as expected Syntax: the server accepts correct input Error handling: the server rejects incorrect input Error handling: excluding a required parameter results in an error Error handling: submitting incorrect data types results in an error
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  Validate API response
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  “Wanna know how Igot these tests?”
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  “It’s all partof the plan.”
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  Start with theplan
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  Manage environments
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  Use variables
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  Create workflows
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  Run scenario
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  Run tests withNewman
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  “I took UItests, and brought them down to API level. It wasn’t hard. Y’see, quality, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little…push.”
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  POSTMAN FEATURES Environments VariablesAssertions Data Driven Tests Newman In-App Postman Lessons Forking TemplatesMocks Team work Echo Monitoring Docs
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  THANKS! Any questions? linkedin.com/in/koptiev/ sgkoptev@gmail.com