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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Test Application Programming Interface of APIs using Postman

API is an Application Programming Interface. It is used to establish communication and data exchange between two software systems. A software system implementing an API consists of various functions and sub-routines which can be executed by another software system.

In API Testing, you use software to send calls to the API, get output, and note down the system's response.

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API Architecture: API calls collection includes mainly two things:

1. HTTP headers: HTTP headers are always dependent on your application.
2. HTTP Request: There are mainly four types of requests.

What is Postman?
Postman is used to fire requests to an API. It is available as add-in on Chrome and also available for Mac application.  It is very fast in response and also light weight which puts no impact on browser performance...
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