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Beginner-friendly REST API Testing Guide - Think Like a Programmer

The key to success these days is the ability to respond to changes quickly. The tester role has been re-defining and evolving because of all the changes, such as Agile, DevOps, product management, envolving architecture such as microservices, etc. To deliver value faster to the customer, we need the capability to shift our work to production quickly. Writing  automation tests  and integrated with a  deployment pipeline becoming one of the hottest skills required for the testers today.   APIs consumed by many different consumers, and we can't manually test all of them. Automation becomes mandatory. How we can automate API tests?  How to turn what we've learned so far into lines of codes? Again, in this tutorial, you'll hear a lot of new words. Remember, be pertinent, be kind to yourself, and keep practice. Learning how to write a program is like learning to speak a new language. The language that the machine could understand. You lea...

Beginner-friendly REST API Testing Guide - Using Postman

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Now you already have an idea about what is the RESTful API, and how it looks like. So, what's next? How we can start to test it? And what we should test? You can start by learning how to use Postman  to do some manual testing first . What is Postman Postman is one of the most popular tools used in API testing. It is a powerful tool that allows you to create tests easily, store information in different environments, and store data for use in other tests.  For a beginner who has no experience, the user interface of the Postman matches the basic concepts we introduced here . Hopefully using Postman is quite straight forward for you. Download the Postman Let's download a Postman and install it first, you can use it in chrome or as an individual application.  Download the app Adding postman as a chrome extension After installing the extension or app and launch postman, it will ask you to sign up for free. It allows you to share your collect...