Postman API Test Automation for Beginners

Learn how to use Postman to write and automate API tests.

🎥 Course created by @vdespa

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️

⭐️ Unit 1 - Introduction to API testing

0:00:00 Lesson 1 - Welcome
0:03:50 Lesson 2 - Introduction to the project
0:10:27 Lesson 3 - What is API testing
0:12:08 Lesson 4 - Manually testing the API
0:20:49 Lesson 5 - Using Postman variables to store secrets
0:30:47 Lesson 6 - Writing scripts in Postman
0:36:14 Lesson 7 - Use the Postman console for debugging scripts
0:39:47 Lesson 8 - Writing an API test
0:44:39 Lesson 9 - JavaScript basics
0:45:46 Lesson 10 - JavaScript basics - Variables
0:58:52 Lesson 11 - JavaScript basics - Variable scopes
1:04:54 Lesson 12 - JavaScript basics - Data types
1:22:44 Lesson 13 - JavaScript basics - Functions
1:33:15 Lesson 14 - JavaScript basics - Methods
1:38:54 Lesson 15 - JavaScript basics - Callback functions
1:48:15 Lesson 16 - JSON format
1:52:09 Lesson 17 - Accessing data from the response body
1:58:29 Lesson 18 - Passing data from one request to the other
2:04:23 Lesson 19 - Setting Postman variables from scripts
2:09:57 Lesson 20 - Assignment #1

⭐️ Unit 2 - Writing API tests

2:16:24 Lesson 1 - Unit overview
2:18:03 Lesson 2 - Test structure in Postman
2:22:51 Lesson 3 - Making assertions about the status code
2:25:15 Lesson 4 - Assignment #2
2:26:07 Lesson 5 - Asserting the response body is JSON
2:30:13 Lesson 6 - Writing simple assertions against the response body
2:38:17 Lesson 7 - Asserting the data-type of a property
2:46:13 Lesson 8 - Using Postman random variables in assertions
2:51:39 Lesson 9 - Regular expressions in tests
2:55:16 Lesson 10 - Assignment #3
2:56:01 Lesson 11 - JSON schema validations
3:01:27 Lesson 12 - Using Postman mock servers
3:12:23 Lesson 13 - Advanced JSON schema validation
3:18:08 Lesson 14 - Common pitfalls with JSON schema validation
3:20:24 Lesson 15 - Assignment #4
3:21:00 Lesson 16 - Testing response headers

⭐️ Unit 3 - Automation first steps

3:23:27 Lesson 1 - Unit overview
3:24:26 Lesson 2 - Collection runner
3:30:53 Lesson 3 - Scheduled runs
3:39:58 Lesson 4 - Postman CLI
3:43:40 Lesson 5 - Running a collection using Postman CLI
3:49:40 Lesson 6 - Postman CLI options

⭐️ Unit 4 - Integrating Postman tests in CI/CD

3:52:23 Lesson 1 - Unit overview
3:53:55 Lesson 2 - What is CI/CD?
3:55:51 Lesson 3 - CI/CD providers
3:57:51 Lesson 4 - Running Postman tests with GitHub Actions
4:05:10 Lesson 5 - Assignment #5
4:05:53 Lesson 6 - Running Postman tests in other CI/CD tools
4:07:42 Lesson 7 - Collaboration within a Postman workspace
4:13:22 Lesson 8 - Claim your badge
4:13:58 Lesson 9 - Conclusion

[ekaterinekantaria]

Thank you very much for this course! I'm glad I started to learn API automation with your training. Previously I knew just few things about test tabs, test snippents in postman and "run collection". Good luck in your future projects! 🙏

[ndexer]

this is BY FAR the best Postman API Test guide I've seen yet, very good entry level guide and everything is well explaiend and clear enough for anyone to understand

[junaedhossain]

I recently completed this course and earned my badge, and I couldn't be more thrilled with the knowledge and skills I gained! The course offered a comprehensive introduction to API testing, detailed guidance on writing and automating API tests using Postman, and practical insights on integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines. The hands-on assignments and real-world applications made the learning experience invaluable. Thank you to Valentin Despa and Postman for this exceptional and transformative course. Highly recommended!

[jerome]

Amazing tutorial for Postman covering the automation topics. Thank you so much!

[volodymyrkopchuk]

Thank you very much for such quality free content. Thanks to you, I gained wonderful new knowledge and managed to look at Postman from a new perspective.

[antoniorodriguez]

Excellent material.
Recommend watching from start to finish.

[rishikantsahu]

Been waiting for something like this, thank you!

[victorydaydeepstate]

I'm a boomer and have no idea what you are talking about...but I'm excited

[angelaasatryan]

Excellent course, thanks Valentin!
Highly recommended to everyone who wants to dive into the amazing world of API testing :)

[royalapples]

I have been waiting for something like this for so long.

[angelamayorgahurtado]

Thank you! It is an excellent course, I learnt a lot, I am trying to apply it to improve my testing and my knowledge. ;-)

[KaletaKLT]

Incredible work done, Valentin! It was so easy to get through all of this. Huuuuge thanks!

[bossysmaxx]

really helped me a lot man, its awesome and most of all its usefull,
made my daily job so much easy

[easylearnplatform]

Great video, I have personally learnt a lot, continue bro

[vikgoku]

Thankyou so much for the video it was helpful

[abhijeetdhumal]

This one is good

We want Jmeter or Jmeter DSL PERFORMANCE TESTING also

[havefun]

Thanks for the tut. 2:09:40 I really need this, everytime I log in, I need to copy and paste my token or something to another endpoint. now after login or doing some requests, I could set the variable. that is really convenient.

[abhijeetdhumal]

Please make video on Performance Testing using jmeter

[TariqAhmad-hwup]

Too good explanation of callback function

[GeniDubovik]

Thanks for such a great course. I just wanted to point to some sort of flaky dealing in "Assignment 3 - Task 2" - The value of the "id" property matches the regular expression pattern: ^[A-Z0-9]{9}$. It seems that sometimes the "id" value could be with the hyphens like this (O0X_M9S8B) and this regexp won't match thus making a test fail. Maybe it would be great to adjust regexp for the future wanderers