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Testing an Existing API
APIs come in all shapes and sizes. I have tried to give you a few different APIs to practice on as you’ve worked your way through this book. If you have worked through the various examples and challenges in this book, you should have a pretty good idea of how to use Postman with various types of APIs. In this chapter, though, I want to get you thinking about how you can use Postman to test an existing API.
Although new APIs are being created every day, the reality is that there are a lot of APIs out there that do not have adequate tests. You might be working on one of those APIs. I was recently working on a project that was under a tight deadline and, to meet this deadline, we had to leave some of the API tests until ...
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