Master API Test Automation in 10 Minutes!

Postman is a Google Chrome app that helps you to create, save, send HTTP requests and test the response data.  It helps to automate the process of making API requests and testing API responses, allowing testers to establish a very efficient workflow. Most programmers and testers are familiar with Postman. However, many use it just to check the response for the services that they are working on. They are unaware of the powerful features that postman offers like: Collections, Tests and pre-request scripts. In this article, I would like to give a quick overview of the test snippets provided by Postman.

Postman is a real time saver making it easier for developers to develop and test APIs. Postman drastically reduces the pressure of regression testing from the QA team. API automated tests are far less time consuming than UI automated tests. The major advantage of API automation is that we can access the application without a user interface. This provides an early evaluation of its overall build strength before running GUI tests.

By integrating the API automated tests to the build server, the QA team can provide a quick feedback on the health of the application as soon as it is deployed. This is achievable with Newman, a command-line collection runner for Postman. It allows you to easily run a Postman collection directly from the command-line, and integrate it with your continuous integration server.

The main reason I like Postman is because of its powerful automation capabilities. Moreover, the learning curve for using it is very low and the app provides a very clean and intuitive user interface to test your server requests. These tests will validate every single time if the response is correct. Writing tests in Postman is made easy by JavaScript and inbuilt snippets, allowing any inexperienced tester to write an efficient test.

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http://blog.testproject.io/2016/06/22/master-api-test-automation-in-10-minutes/