Course

Fundamentals of Postman

Fundamentals of Postman is a tool course, which gives you the basic knowlege on how to ensure quality with Postman when working with SOA and webservice-projects.

Learning objectives

You will acquire a basic knowledge on how to ensure quality and Postman can be used when working with SOA and web service projects. You will be better at:

Working with REST-services in Postman

Understanding build-up and the work with services

Acquiring knowledge on fundamental XML, JSON, WADL, Javascript and REST

Collaboration with developers of web services

Building up efficient and structured tests

Maintain a self-developed API-client

Working with a simulation of services

Understanding what and where Postman can be used in your organization

Furthermore, you will get a lot of tips and tricks as well as Best Practices, which you can use when working with Postman afterwards.

Target audience

The course is for anyone in test- or development teams, who wants to be involved in designing, developing, and testing services, as well as supporting a structured and automated approach using the Postman tool. No prior knowledge of similar tools is required but a basic knowledge of web services can be an advantage – but not a requirement.

Course form

The course is 2 days where the participants through examples and practical exercises will learn how to operate and work with Postman. The course is based on an active involvement of the participants and a lot of hands-on exercises, to ensure that what is learned can be used directly after completing the course.

Course contents

The course is a good way to started with Postman and service testing. It includes:

Introduction to terms such as POST, PUT, GET, resources, XML, Endpoints, Payload, JSON, WADL and REST

Introduction to Postman and service testing

Structuring and building of tests with Collections, workspaces

Assertions in JavaScript

Test execution and reporting (Newman)

Introduction to Extended Postman-functionality (DevOps)

Webservice virtualization (Mock server)

Load & performance test with Postman (Monitors)

Fundamentals of Postman