Postman Essential Training

Learn how to write and run automated API tests with Postman.

Introduction

• Why automate your API tests?
• What you should know
• Setting up your test environment

1. Getting Started with Postman

• Creating collections and folders
• The contact list application
• How JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) work
• Creating GET requests
• Creating POST requests
• Creating PUT and DELETE requests
• Creating negative requests: Part 1
• Creating negative requests: Part 2
• Using environment variables
• Saving response data as a variable
• Challenge: Add variables to a request
• Solution: Add variables to a request

2. Easy Postman Assertions

• Status type assertions
• Body assertions
• Header and response time assertions
• Debugging with the Postman console
• Challenge: Write assertions
• Solution: Write assertions

3. Advanced Postman Assertions

• JSON assertions
• Nested JSON assertions
• Asserting on complicated JSON
• Challenge: Complicated assertions
• Solution: Complicated assertions

4. Running Your Test Collections

• Using the Collection Runner
• Exporting your collection
• Running your collection with Newman

Conclusion

• Continuing with API testing