Getting the most out of Postman

Everyone is using Postman to write a couple tests for their APIs or even to play around with an API to understand how it works. The process is simple: One creates a collection, adds some requests and sees some magic. But what is next? Is Postman better than that? In this talk you will see how to get the most out of Postman's features to help you embrace API development and testing.

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1. Getting the most out of Evaldo Bento @InFog9 Dutch PHP Conference June 7th 2019
2. Evaldo Bento
3. Rakuten Germany rakuten.de
4. Context matters
5. Telling histories > Only tech
6. Containerize a PHP service
7. Upgrade the service from PHP 5.3 to 7.3
8. No… Tests...
9. End to end tests to the rescue!
10. PHPUnit!
11. PHPUnit? Nah.
12. Some well crafted shell scripts? Nah.
13. Enters Postman
15. What is Postman?
16. Black box testing - End to end
17. Starting a new Collection
19. A simple request with Postman
22. And then another request
25. Hmm, it’s getting complicated
26. Using variables
27. Pre-request scripts
29. Running the Collection
33. No tests?
34. Let’s write some tests
36. Oh, wait, this is Javascript!
40. Cool! Another test!
43. Let’s add another request
46. Improving the tests
47. Schema validation for JSON
49. Removing duplicates
51. Using environments
55. Running the Collection again
58. BONUS
61. What about PHP?
62. Sending the “ticket” to QA
63. Workspace
68. Can I run a collection on CLI?
69. Enters newman
71. newman for local collections
74. Added to the build pipeline
75. newman for collections on the cloud
76. Designing APIs
78. Mock servers
82. Automation with Postman
87. Outcomes
88. Easy to start
89. Powerful
90. Fun to play with
91. Eases collaboration DEV & QA
92. Pipeline integration
93. Leads to more quality
94. Ask me two or more questions
95. Thank you! @InFog9 evaldojunior.com https:/ /joind.in/talk/d30f1