1. Postman: An
Introduction for
Testers
@getpostman

2. DEVELOPER ADVOCATE, POSTMAN
Sean
Keegan
@seanryankeegan
TECHNICAL ENABLEMENT ARCHITECT, POSTMAN
Carson
Hunter
@carrrson

3. Agenda
1 What is API testing?
2 Intro to unit testing in Postman
3 Writing custom tests
5 Q&A
4 Resources
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4. Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
● Send a request and inspect a response
● Use a test snippet & write custom tests
● Extract data from one request to use in another with variables
● Save and run tests as collections
● Explain different types of tests that can be written in Postman
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5. What is API testing?
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1 Unit testing
2 End-to-end testing
3 Contract testing

6. Fork the learning materials
www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-space-camp/
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To your own workspace

7. Learning objectives
During this session, we learned how to:
● Send a request and inspect a response
● Use a test snippet & write custom tests
● Extract data from one request to use in another with variables
● Save and run tests as collections
● Explain different types of tests that can be written in Postman
@getpostman
recap

8. What’s Next?
A few things to look forward to:
● Flow Runner
● … and some more :)
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Postman product roadmap

9. Additional Resources
Postman Answers
www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-answers/
Intro to writing tests - with examples
go.pstmn.io/intro-writing-tests
Postman Space Camp
www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-space-camp/
Community Forum
community.postman.com
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10. Q&A
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11. Post-event feedback survey
Please tell us
about your
experience!
tinyurl.com/space-camp-tester
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12. Thank You
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