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Quick Introduction to Postman and API Testing for Beginners by Udemy
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Course Highlights
- Introduction to APIs by using Postman
- Start using Postman
- Overview of the HTTP messages
- Use query parameters, path variables and headers
- Read/write JSON
- Write basic API tests
- Work with Postman variables
- Create simple workflows
- Learn HTTP request methods: GET, POST, PATCH & DELETE
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
7 Topics
Course materials
How to install Postman
Updating Postman
About the course
A quick introduction to APIs
Your first Postman request
The HTTP protocol explained
24 Topics
Postman collections
Postman collections quiz
Query parameters in HTTP requests
Query parameters
Assignment #1 - Query parameters
Guided Assignment #1 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #1 - Query parameters - Solution
Path variables
Query parameters and path variables
API Authentication
Troubleshooting HTTP status codes
HTTP headers
JSON format explained
Assignment #2
Guided Assignment #2 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #2 - Solution
GET vs POST
Using random data in requests (random variables)
How not to use Postman
Assignment #3 - Adding more requests
Assignment #3 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #3 - Adding more requests - Solution
PATCH request method
DELETE request method
24 Topics
Automation basics
Your first API test
Assignment #4 - Adding status code tests
Assignment #4 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #4 - Adding status code tests - Solution
Postman variables
Working with Postman variables from scripts
Postman Variables
Extracting data from the response
Quiz - Working with JSON responses
Assignment #5 - Dynamically setting variables
Assignment #5 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #5 - Dynamically setting variables - Solution
Assertions on objects
Assignment #6
Assignment #6 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #6 - Solution
Assignment #7
Assignment #7 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #7 - Solution
Assignment #8
Assignment #8 - Step by step instructions
Assignment #8 - Solution
Learn JavaScript basics
7 Topics
Running the collection manually
Collection Runner
Request execution order
Postman monitors
Newman - the Postman CLI tool
HTML reports with Newman
Automation overview
1 Topic
Bonus Lecture
Quick Introduction to Postman and API Testing for Beginners
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