Postman Tutorial: Getting Started with API Testing

by Praveenkumar Bouna

Released March 2022

Publisher(s): Packt Publishing

ISBN: 9781803243351

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Video description

Postman has become the go-to tool for API developers across various industries, playing a crucial role in API testing. Notably, giants like Twitter and Shopify rely on Postman for efficient API management, bolstering their product portfolios and maintaining their leadership positions within their respective sectors.

In this comprehensive course, you will delve into Postman’s desktop and web applications, gaining proficiency in sending fundamental HTTP requests such as GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, and more for API testing. The course will empower you to master advanced techniques such as incorporating authorization, header presets, code snippets, and utilizing the Postman console. Additionally, you will explore the concept of collections in Postman, harness the power of Postman environments for variable grouping, and gain insights into Postman workspaces. Importing requests and managing API elements will also be covered extensively.

By course completion, you will possess a strong foundation in Postman and its feature set, equipping you with valuable knowledge for seamless REST API testing. You will emerge with the confidence to immediately apply the Postman concepts acquired throughout the course.

What You Will Learn

Get started with using Postman Desktop and Postman web app for API testing
Understand environments and workspaces in Postman
Understand collections in Postman to group the requests
Learn how to send HTTP requests
Understand request body options and request header presets
Learn about Postman environments and how to create one

Auience

This course is for web developers who work with APIs on the frontend or backend. You may be either consuming or exposing APIs. Basic knowledge of API usage and JSON will be good to have. No prior experience on Postman is required.

About The Author

Praveenkumar Bouna: Praveenkumar Bouna is a software engineer with over 15 years of C# .NET development experience. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science and engineering. He has worked for about ten years in Honeywell, wherein he transitioned from software engineer to senior software engineer, tech lead, and so on in C#. He has also worked in security and surveillance as well as access control systems in top MNCs in the software industry. He is also a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Scrum Master for a security R&D team. He is known for his simpler teaching approach toward explaining various complex topics his colleagues come across in everyday programming life.