QA Guide to REST API Testing for Beginners

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

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QA Guide to REST API Testing for Beginners

What You Will Learn!

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

Description

Welcome!

This is the third course in my "QA Guide" series. Application QA Engineers are high on the list of great jobs that can earn you over $100k a year. Take the next step to achieve your maximum earning potential.

What are APIs? And how do we test them?

APIs are an extremely important part of the applications that we use everyday. There are APIs being called every time you open an app on your phone, search for products on the web, or play a song from your Alexa.

If your team is developing a mobile app or web application, there are going to be APIs involved. You need to be able to understand what APIs are, how they work, and how to test them.

Are you ready to work with APIs?

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.

I will be 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.

You will learn some javaScript which is essential when working with REST APIs.

The bulk of the course will be through exercises. We will use Postman to generate API requests. Then we will use Postman to test the requests that we created.

Finally, we will be using Fiddler to capture, view, and manipulate API Traffic.

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