REST API Testing, Automation using POSTMAN

Explore the Postman app interface, including the sidebar, header, and builder, and learn to run collections, import files, manage environments, and use authentication, headers, and scripts.

Learn to update a student resource using a put request, send a json payload, and verify updates with a follow-up get showing changed first name, last name, and courses.

Explore how the options request reveals allowed methods for a resource in rest api testing with postman, including post for creating a student and get, head, patch, delete, and put for endpoints.

Learn how Postman generates code snippets from a request, transforming it into curl, Python, http client, or C# code to aid web service development and test automation.

Learn to use Postman's presets to save commonly used header key-value pairs, such as content type and cookies, then apply them to a post request to add a new student.

Set up the open source Best Buy API Playground locally, explore CRUD endpoints for products, stores, services, and categories, and use swagger and Postman collections to learn and test.

Discover how Postman environments and global, collection, and environment variables streamline testing across dev, test, stage, and production by avoiding hardcoded urls.

Master variable precedence in Postman by prioritizing local variables over environment, collection, and global variables. See how same-named variables in collection or environment override globals, using a URL variable example.

Export and import Postman collections and data, including environments and globals, using single or bulk options. Paste raw json to import sample collections like Best Buy and interact with endpoints.

Learn how to perform a multipart file upload to Zamzar with Postman, using basic auth API key, form-data for source file and target format, and handling the 201 created response.

Set up Postman's proxy to capture browser network traffic, configure port and target, and log requests from Firefox or Chrome using native app or interceptor.

Learn to perform basic authentication in Postman by supplying admin/admin credentials or an authorization header with base64-encoded credentials, then send a get request to view the page.

Learn to consume PayPal RESTful payment APIs using Postman, explore creating payments, and test against the sandbox environment with PayPal's developer docs.