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The document discusses Postman, an API development platform that allows designing, building, and testing APIs. It supports automation testing and executing tests from the command line. The document also explains HTTP request methods like POST, PUT, DELETE and how collections in Postman are used to organize requests.

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API

The document discusses Postman, an API development platform that allows designing, building, and testing APIs. It supports automation testing and executing tests from the command line. The document also explains HTTP request methods like POST, PUT, DELETE and how collections in Postman are used to organize requests.

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Postman is a collaboration platform in which API’s can be designed, built & tested in a seamless manner.

It
supports automation testing as Postman has in-built features. So you can add assertion, perform data driven
testing using csv and json files. You can also execute tests in command line using Newman.

API stands for Application Programming Interfaces and this is a web service. An API is a software intermediary
that allows two applications to talk to each other. In other words,
An API is the messenger that delivers yours request to the provider that you’re requesting it from and then
delivers the response back to you.

HTTP Request method: POST PUT DELETE etc.


Post request creates a new resource
PUT request is a http request that updates information about an existing resource
DELETE requests delete a resource

Collections are great way of storing requests in postman by using collections. Collection used to group requests
together. It is straightforward to organize requests based on functionality.

The HTTP clients submit an HTTP request message to the server. The server returns a response message to the
client.

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CSV – Comma Separated Value

JSON – JavaScript object notation

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