API Testing: Working with Variables in Postman
API, Postman
| Intermediate
- 13 videos | 1h 40m
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
In Postman, variables play a pivotal role in enhancing flexibility and efficiency throughout the application programming interface (API) testing and development process. These variables provide a dynamic way to handle changing values, such as ports, URL app routes, or data within a request body. In this course, you will begin by working with variables, including global variables, collection variables, and environment variables, and learning when to use each type. Moving on, you explore secret variables, which keep their value hidden, and thus are ideal for storing sensitive information like passwords. You will see how you can use the UI, pre-request scripts, and tests to configure and access these variables. Next, you delve into request chaining, linking all requests in a collection such that each request depends on the previous ones in sequence. Finally, you explore the Postman command line interface (CLI). You will install this on your local machine and use it to run collections.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Discover the key concepts covered in this course
Work with global variables
Create variables in pre-request scripts
Create secret variables
Work with collection variables
Perform tests with collections
Test apis with collection variables -
Work with environment variables
Write pre-request scripts for collections
Write test scripts for schema validation
Explore request chaining
Work with the postman command line interface (cli)
Summarize the key concepts covered in this course
IN THIS COURSE
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1m 59sIn this video, we will discover the key concepts covered in this course. FREE ACCESS
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6m 58sDuring this video, you will learn how to work with global variables. FREE ACCESS
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3. Defining Global Variables Using Pre-request Scripts6m 15sIn this video, find out how to create variables in pre-request scripts. FREE ACCESS
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4. Creating Secret Variables7m 36sLearn how to create secret variables. FREE ACCESS
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5. Creating and Accessing Collection Variables4m 35sIn this video, you will learn how to work with collection variables. FREE ACCESS
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6. Performing End-to-end Tests with Collection Variables-I12m 5sIn this video, you will learn how to perform tests with collections. FREE ACCESS
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7. Performing End-to-end Tests with Collection Variables-II7m 12sIn this video, learn how to test APIs with collection variables. FREE ACCESS
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8. Creating and Using Environment Variables6m 21sFind out how to work with environment variables. FREE ACCESS
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9. Configuring Pre-request Scripts for Requests and Collections10m 54sIn this video, discover how to write pre-request scripts for collections. FREE ACCESS
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10. Configuring Test Scripts for Schema Validation8m 40sLearn how to write test scripts for schema validation. FREE ACCESS
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11. Working with Request Chaining11m 55sIn this video, we will explore request chaining. FREE ACCESS
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12. Running Collections Using the Postman Command Line Interface (CLI)12m 41sFind out how to work with the Postman command line interface (CLI). FREE ACCESS
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13. Course Summary2m 49sIn this video, we will summarize the key concepts covered in this course. FREE ACCESS
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