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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition
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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition

by Dave Westerveld
June 2024
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
9h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Performance Testing an API

APIs are meant to be interacted with programmatically. This means that access to them can be automated. This ability to automate is great and is one of the reasons that APIs have taken off the way they have. However, the ability to automate them means that they can be, deliberately or inadvertently, interacted with in ways that can cause performance issues.

Performance testing is an area of testing that has its own specialists. There are a huge number of considerations and a lot of complexity that go into performance testing. I have done some performance testing in my career and worked with performance testing teams, but I am not an expert on this topic. However, as with security testing, I believe that this topic ...

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ISBN: 9781804617908