Postman Course – Rest API Testing and Development

Postman is a tool used by millions of developers around the world to document, test and interact with APIs. This course will show you the basics of postman and take you from making simple requests all the way to advanced topics such as scripting and mocking out an API.

We will start with the basics of APIs, types of APIs and then we will dive deeper into Postman Features that help in interacting with APIs. We will look at sending requests, setting up environments, specifying examples and authenticating requests. we will also look how to overcome a situation when the backend team is still developing the APIs and the frontend team needs to consume it.

Some of the major topics that we will cover include:

Basics of API

What is an API

Types of Web based APIs

How REST APIs Work

Getting Started with Postman

What is Postman

Installing & Updating Postman

Navigating Postman

Sending your first request

Creating your first collection

Creating a workspace

Sending Requests

Setup the API

Building Requests

Authorizing Requests

Basic Authentication

API Keys

OAuth 2.0

Bearer Tokens

eceiving Responses

Grouping requests in Collections

Using variables

Managing Environments

Specifying Examples

Generating client code

Sync

Writing Scripts