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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 7: Data-Driven Testing

One of the great things about test automation is the ability to try out many different things without getting bored. In fact, one of the heuristics I use for determining whether I should automate something is to ask myself whether what I am doing is boring. If I am working on boring and repetitive work, it's a good indicator that I might be working on something that should be automated.

Sometimes, creating test automation itself can get boring, though. You may want to create tests for several inputs to a request that are all quite similar. Creating good test cases can involve trying out many different inputs to the system. Automation is good at checking many things over and over, but it can take a lot of work to ...

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