The Journal of a Tester: Blog about my survival escapades 🚀

Tag: API Testing

  • Agile Testing Days USA 2023

    My first international conference is HUSTEF. Last year in Budapest, Hungary, I had a fantastic experience. To learn more about my experiences, read this blog. Last year, as I was submitting proposals for several conferences, an email stating that “I am selected for Agile Testing Days USA 2023” with the topic of “API Testing for…

  • How to Visualize your JSON 🕵🏼?

    How to Visualize your JSON 🕵🏼?

    A simple way to view and segregate the complex JSON Hello Peeps, Welcome back to another blog 😉. I hope everything is going well for you. Many people prefer the JSON format for APIs, databases, and other applications for a variety of reasons. Some JSON requests or responses are simple and only contain a few objects.…

  • How to mock the APIs and how is that helpful?

    How to mock the APIs and how is that helpful?

      When and how to use Mock Servers and how to set up a Mock server in Postman? What is a Mock Server? During your API Testing journey, you cannot wait every time for your API to be completely ready. We might have the API documentation with the sample responses. So what do we? Using the sample…

  • Maintaining Secrets as part of your Postman Variables!!

      Masking the values of the variables Hello People, How are you all doing? I thought of writing a small article with one of the small features added to Postman, it looks small but its powerful and useful feature. If you are new to the concept of variables, kindly read this blog post before proceeding…

  • Being a Postman Supernova!!

    Being a Postman Supernova!!

     Dear People, I hope you are all doing great. Often I am asked the question that “What is the Postman Supernova program?”. Of course, the official portal displays all the required information. And here I will share my own journey/experiences as a Postman Supernova. How? If you are one among the million users of Postman,…

  • How to handle SOAP API and parsing the response in Postman??

     SOAP is an XML-based protocol for accessing web services over HTTP. It has some specifications which could be used across all applications. SOAP is known as the Simple Object Access Protocol, but in later times was just shortened to SOAP v1.2. SOAP is a protocol or in other words is a definition of how web…

  • How to handle REST API and parsing the response in Postman??

     REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style for providing standards between computer systems on the web, making it easier for systems to communicate with each other. REST-compliant systems, often called RESTful systems, are characterized by how they are stateless and separate the concerns of client and server. Most commonly used nowadays. Separation of Client…

  • What are the types of Authentication for your APIs? How to configure that in Postman?

      When you start working with third-party APIs, you would have noticed different API authentication methods. This will provide you the authorization for accessing those APIs. Most frequently used methods are After adding all the details to your request on clicking send we might have received the “401 Unauthorized”. Have you ever faced it? Now…

  • How to build different HTTP Requests in Postman?

    Hello People!! How are you all?  We can discuss about the basic request building part in Postman. HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used to send and receive data over the Internet. When you make an API call, an HTTP client sends a request to an HTTP server, which then sends back a response…

  • What are the different types of variables in Postman? How and when to use them?

     Dear People, I hope you are all safe! Today we are going to learn something in Postman which will be very helpful and save our time in most of the scenarios. If you have worked on any programming language, you would have worked with variables with different scopes. They are nothing but placeholders to hold…