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Tag: API

  • 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…

  • Global functions of JavaScript!!!

    Some basic knowledge about JavaScript will help you to write better scripts in Postman for your API testing automation. We will look about some global functions and their usage. Once you learn you will know when and where to use in your script. These global functions called globally, rather than on an object directly return…

  • 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…

  • Google Chat API – Adding to the Existing requests for receiving notifications upon completion

    Dear Folks, Hope all of you are safe and healthy 🙂 If you have just started API testing with Postman, or executing a small set of test cases, else if you are in the learning phase, this google chat API will be really helpful for you. You need to be informed about the completion of…

  • How to create realistic bulk data for Tests? Mockaroo - A boon for Test Data creation!!

    Mockaroo helps in creating realistic and bulk Test data in a jiffy!! This helps you to create realistic Test data, and also a number of data requests in just a single click. Step 1: Create your account: Step 2: Navigate to the “SCHEMAS” tab, to create a Schema based on your Test Data requirement. And…