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Tag: API Testing

  • How to easily locate your JSON object in your API response?

     Dear People, I hope you are safe and doing good. When I started with API Testing, JSON format was quite new to me. But somehow I liked it due to it’s readability. Due to the love for that, currently I have updated my bio in many places in JSON format. Okay, let me explain why…

  • API Testing Learning Path using Postman!!

      If you are new to APIs and API Testing, I suggest you to start with Postman. Why because is, Postman gives you a look and feel about the APIs. Also once you learn APIs and API Testing process better, then you can switch or learn any other API Testing tool based on your project…

  • How to implement Data Driven Approach in Postman?

      Hello Peeps, Welcome back!! Postman allows us to execute requests in a collection through the collection runner and while execution we can provide a data set in the form of JSON or CSV that are used while running the requests inside the collection. When To Use Data Variables? Data variables are used while we…

  • Postman 101!!

    Dear Community, Hope you all are safe and healthy! It’s time to go back to some basics. We will discuss few basic things about API’s and Postman here. What is Postman? Postman is a platform to build, test, design, modify, and document APIs. It is a simple Graphic User Interface for sending and viewing HTTP requests…

  • Story of a beginner in API Testing…

    Even after many years of experience in Quality Assurance, I was a bit intrigued when I heard the term “API Testing” for the first time. Around two years back when I started with API Testing, it was entirely new to me. I was literally scared and not sure how to proceed. That we were provided…

  • How and Where to start learning API Testing and Postman??

    Hello Guys!! Hope you are doing well. I am getting this question frequently and I thought of summing up the points which will help out the Test Engineers who are aspiring to start their career/to add API Testing skillset to their bucket. You are already into Testing for few years, and wondering what’s this API…

  • My journey with Postman!!

    Dear People,  Hope you are all safe and healthy… I was thinking for a while to pen down this post. How it started? Almost like most of you guys, I too started Postman for testing the API’s manually. The developers will provide us set of collections where-in the credentials will be stored (some generic ones for…

  • API Testing Tutorial

    Dear Folks, Hope you all are safe and healthy!! I have prepared a document on API basics and API Testing for a session in my office. Every API tester would need to know more about the API jargon and that will really help them to understand the APIs and test better… So I am attaching…

  • Smart Tests using Postman!!

     When you are planning to write Tests for an API, make sure to write it in a way where the dynamic variables are used wherever possible, because this will help you to cover new scenarios for every run. If you are executing a UI test case, for every run you want to test with dynamic or…

  • HTTP Response codes

    If you are into API Testing recently, it’s good to have an understanding of the API response codes. A good API will be able to handle the response codes appropriately.  Let’s have a look at the commonly used response codes: 200 (OK): It indicates that the REST API successfully carried out whatever action the client…