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Tag: API

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Useful JavaScript methods for handling arrays in API Testing using Postman!!

    When I started using Postman, JavaScript was completely new to me, those Syntax, Statements etc.. I have quite some knowledge of Java, but nowhere those are related to JS:-) ha ha ha… When you are Testing your API, most of the times you need handle JSON Arrays . Based on my experience I would say,…

  • 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…

  • Everything you need to know about JavaScript!!

     When I started learning JS, I used many sources. And of course I have written few articles on JS functions and methods. So I thought of clubbing the simple tricks and basics for JS in single place. Lets start with the variables. 1.Variables: var, const, let var: The most common variable. Can be reassigned but…