REST API Testing in Postman: Ancient Greece

Read and send REST requests in Postman, organize them into a collection with variables, environments and authorization, and write checks on status, values, time, headers and schema. Chain requests and run the collection with data files, from the command line and on a schedule.

39 lessons · 490 stepscertificate

Course program

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How the web talks

Client, server and the database8 steps

HTTP and HTTPS10 steps

Request and response11 steps

HTTP methods13 steps

Headers12 steps

Status codes14 steps

What REST is12 steps

JSON12 steps

Client, server and database validation13 steps

Postman: first requests

Your Postman workspace12 steps

Reading Swagger12 steps

Collections and folders14 steps

GET and query parameters13 steps

POST and your first account13 steps

Variables and environments

Variables12 steps

Environments13 steps

Authorization

No Auth, Basic Auth and inheritance13 steps

API keys13 steps

Bearer tokens13 steps

Postman Vault13 steps

Changing and deleting

PUT and PATCH14 steps

DELETE10 steps

Checks in Postman

Testing the status code11 steps

Testing JSON values15 steps

Testing response time12 steps

Testing headers11 steps

Pre-request scripts12 steps

JSON Schema13 steps

cURL, import and the browser13 steps

Negative scenarios14 steps

Chains and runs

Chaining requests12 steps

The Collection Runner14 steps

Controlling the run15 steps

Data files12 steps

Newman14 steps

Mock servers14 steps

Monitors13 steps

The Scroll and Shelf

Review: the Scroll of Truth11 steps

Back at Shelf14 steps

The author

Artsiom Rusau – QA engineer and course author. He has tested software since 2019 and has taught software testing since 2020.

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