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API Testing and Development with Postman
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API Testing and Development with Postman

by Dave Westerveld
May 2021
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
8h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4: Considerations for Good API Test Automation

In 1811, an angry group broke into a factory in the town of Nottingham in the UK. They started smashing machinery and equipment and destroyed much of the factory before fleeing. These men had been angry and upset for some time. They had issued manifestos and sent threatening letters, but on this day, they took the even more radical step of destroying the machines in this factory. Why were they so upset?

Well, to sum it up in a word: automation.

These men were skilled artisans. They were weavers and textile workers who had dedicated their lives to the craft of making clothes, and they did not like the new machines that were able to make cloth much more quickly and cheaply than they ever ...

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ISBN: 9781800569201