QA Guide to REST API Testing for Beginners

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Overview

Get skilled at using Postman and Fiddler to create, call, and test REST APIs for software testing

Duration	6 hours
Total fee	₹455
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

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Highlights

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Course details

Skills you will learn

Javascript Installation Quality Assurance Software Testing

Who should do this course?

You want to know more about APIs
You want to learn how to test APIs
You want to learn how to create re-usable test cases for APIs
You want to be able to read and create JSON data
You want to learn some javaScript

What are the course deliverables?

You will learn what APIs are and how they work
You will be skilled at using Postman and Fiddler to create, issue requests, and test APIs
You will learn how to use Fiddler to capture, view, replay, and manipulate web traffic
You will be able to read and create JSON data
You will learn some javaScript

More about this course

In this course you will learn everything that you need to know to get started with REST API testing
The course starts with API basics. Here you will learn what an API is and how they work
Covering several tools along the way to help you validate and format APIs so that you can quickly and easily understand the purpose and content
Learn some javaScript which is essential when working with REST APIs

QA Guide to REST API Testing for Beginners
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UDEMY
Curriculum

Introduction

Introduction

How to get help

API Basics

What is an API?

How APIs work with applications

API Enpoints

Request methods

Status codes

Headers

Request and Response Body

Working with JSON with Sublime text

Intro to Working with JSON with Sublime text

Installing Sublime

Install package control

Install Pretty JSON

Validating JSON

Formatting JSON

Javascript and JSON Data

Introduction to Javascript and JSON Data

Datatypes

Variables

Arrays

Objects and JSON

Accessing object values

API Playback tool - Postman

Intro to Postman

Postman installation

Create a request

Collections

Path parameters

Query parameters

POST, PUT, and PATCH requests

DELETE request

Variables

API key

Environment variables

Headers

Postman Testing

Intro to Postman API Testing

Testing for status codes

Testing for body content

Using variables in tests

Testing for response time

Testing for headers

Challenge Project: Testing the PokeAPI

Challenge Solution: Testing the PokeAPI

Browser Developer Tools

Intro to Browser Developer Tools

Opening the developer tools

Capturing browser traffic

QA Guide to REST API Testing for Beginners
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UDEMY
Faculty details

Jason Myers

He is a senior QA engineer with over 15 years of experience building QA teams. His experience includes software testing of web and mobile apps, test automation, and a bit of front-end web and mobile development.