Postman Fundamentals
By Nate Taylor
Course info
Course info
Description
When working with an API there's always so much to remember, such as any special API keys, different URLs for different environments, as well as the shape that each request should take.
In this course, Postman Fundamentals, you'll learn how Postman can help simplify working with an API. It allows you to use variables so that the same request works whether it's in the testing or staging environment.
You'll also learn how you can create automated API tests so that you ensure your API doesn't break between releases. You'll even see how Postman simplifies writing documentation for your API, so that your users can have an up-to-date explanation of what your API is doing.
By the end of this course, you'll know the ins and outs of Postman, and be equipped to maximize your interactions with APIs.
Course FAQ
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. It is a powerful tool for testing and understanding APIs made by yourself or others.
Some of Postman's top benefits include:
- Easy to create, share, test, and document APIs
- Store information for running tests in different environments
- Store data for use in other tests
- Integrates with build systems
- Easy to move tests and environments to code repositories
- Good UI
Postman 5.0 is free to all users and includes collaboration, testing, and automation features.
This course will teach you about:
- The basics of Postman
- Testing requests
- Using Collections in Postman
- The need for documentation
- Available Team Tools
- Much more
Anyone interested in learning how to use Postman to test and improve APIs, especially developers.
There are no strict prerequisites to this course, but anyone trying to learn Postman would likely be involved in developing and/or testing APIs that they or others built.
About the author
Nate's first program was written in QBasic on an 8086 clone his dad built. Since then he's written applications in C++, .NET, and Node.js.
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Course Overview
[Autogenerated] Hi, everyone. My name is Nate Taylor and welcome to my course, Postman Fundamentals. I am a lead software developer at Amateur in Omaha, Nebraska. Postman is a tool used by over three million developers around the world to document, test and interact with a P I. This course shows you the ins and outs of postman and takes you from making simple requests all the way to mocking out an A P I. Some of the major topics that will cover include making a P I request using different environments automated testing, an A P I scripting a p I work flows and documenting an A P i by the end of this course will be ready to maximize your interactions with any A p I in your life. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn how postman can simplify working within a p I with the Postman Fundamentals force that portal site