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
   

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2. Evaldo Bento
   

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3. Rakuten Germany
   rakuten.de
   

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4. Context matters
   

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5. Telling histories > Only tech
   

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6. Containerize a PHP service
   

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7. Upgrade the service from PHP 5.3 to 7.3
   

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8. No… Tests...
   

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9. End to end tests to the rescue!
   

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10. PHPUnit!
    

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11. PHPUnit? Nah.
    

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12. Some well crafted shell scripts? Nah.
    

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13. Enters Postman
    

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15. What is Postman?
    

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16. Black box testing - End to end
    

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17. Starting a new Collection
    

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19. A simple request with Postman
    

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22. And then another request
    

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25. Hmm, it’s getting complicated
    

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26. Using variables
    

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27. Pre-request scripts
    

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29. Running the Collection
    

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33. No tests?
    

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34. Let’s write some tests
    

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36. Oh, wait, this is Javascript!
    

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40. Cool! Another test!
    

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43. Let’s add another request
    

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46. Improving the tests
    

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47. Schema validation for JSON
    

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49. Removing duplicates
    

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51. Using environments
    

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55. Running the Collection again
    

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58. BONUS
    

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61. What about PHP?
    

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62. Sending the “ticket” to QA
    

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63. Workspace
    

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68. Can I run a collection on CLI?
    

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69. Enters newman
    

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71. newman for local collections
    

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74. Added to the build pipeline
    

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75. newman for collections on the cloud
    

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76. Designing APIs
    

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78. Mock servers
    

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82. Automation with Postman
    

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87. Outcomes
    

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88. Easy to start
    

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89. Powerful
    

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90. Fun to play with
    

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91. Eases collaboration DEV & QA
    

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92. Pipeline integration
    

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93. Leads to more quality
    

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94. Ask me two or more questions
    

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95. Thank you!
    @InFog9
    evaldojunior.com
    https:/
    /joind.in/talk/d30f1
    

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