Postman Beginner's Course - API Testing

freeCodeCamp.org · Beginner ·🔧 Backend Engineering ·5y ago
Skills: API Design70%
Postman has over 10 million users worldwide. This course will introduce you to Postman and is suited for beginners. You will learn how to build API requests with Postman, how to inspect responses and create workflows. The second part of the course will get into the most exciting feature of Postman: writing API tests and automating their execution. You will learn about the collection runner, Postman monitors and Newman. You will get hands-on experience and will have plenty opportunities to practice. The best way to learn is by doing the assignments. 📚 Course Notes: https://github.com/vdespa/introduction-to-postman-course 🎥 Course created by Valentin Despa, Developer Educator 🐦 Valentin on Twitter: @vdespa 📺 Valentin on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUUl_HXJjU--iYjUkIgEcTw?sub_confirmation=1 ⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ ⭐️ Unit 1 - Introduction to Postman ⌨️ Lesson 1 - Welcome (0:00:00​) ⌨️ Lesson 2 - What is Postman (0:01:12​) ⌨️ Lesson 3 - How to install Postman (0:03:06​) ⌨️ Lesson 4 - Your first request with Postman (0:04:45​) ⌨️ Lesson 5 - HTTP (0:07:07​) ⌨️ Lesson 6 - Postman collections and variables (0:11:10​) ⌨️ Lesson 7 - Query parameters (0:15:55​) ⌨️ Lesson 8 - Assignment (0:22:50​) ⌨️ Lesson 9 - Path variables (0:25:21) ⌨️ Lesson 10 - POST request / API Authentication (0:30:07) ⌨️ Lesson 11 - JSON format (0:41:21) ⌨️ Lesson 12 - Assignment (0:45:11) ⌨️ Lesson 13 - Random test data (0:47:32) ⌨️ Lesson 14 - Is Postman the right tool for me? (0:50:59) ⌨️ Lesson 15 - Viewing existing orders (0:52:16) ⌨️ Lesson 16 - Assignment (0:53:59) ⌨️ Lesson 17 - PATCH request (0:55:56) ⌨️ Lesson 18 - DELETE request (0:59:03) ⭐️ Unit 2 - Test automation with Postman ⌨️ Lesson 19 - Introduction to test automation (1:01:52) ⌨️ Lesson 20 - Your first API tests (1:02:52​) ⌨️ Lesson 21 - Assignment (1:14:55) ⌨️ Lesson 22 - Postman variables (1:19:20) ⌨️ Lesson 23 - Extracting data from the response (1:24:13) ⌨️ Lesson 24 - Assignment (1:36:51) ⌨️ Lesson 25 -
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