John Farrar

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2. Into The Box 2018
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3. …an approach to software development
under which requirements and solutions
evolve through the collaborative effort of
self-organizing cross-functional teams and
their customer/end users.
What is Agile?

4. Tools: Postman
It is awesome and just keeps
getting better.
API: ColdBox
It gets the job done!
UI: Vue
Anything you can do, I can Vue
better! (delivered via Axios)
API agile: able to move quickly and easily
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5. Tools: Postman
It is awesome and just keeps
getting better.
API: ColdBox
It gets the job done!
Build: Jenkins
Bamboo, CircleCI, CodeFresh,
CodeShip, GitLab, Travis, or ???
API agile: able to move quickly and easily
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6. Postman ( free for single users )
• Request GUI
• Collections
• Documentation
• Environments
• Mock Servers
• Monitors
• Templates
• Workspaces
• ( bonus: API Network Listing )
Features of Interest

7. Postman ( free for single users )
Request GUI
• Request GUI
• Collections
• Documentation
• Environments
• Mock Servers
• Monitors
• Templates
• Workspaces
• ( bonus: API Network Listing )

8. Request GUI
HTTP Verbs

9. Request GUI
• COPY
• DELETE
• GET
• HEAD
• LINK
• OPTIONS
• PATCH
• POST
• PROPFIND
• PURGE
• PUT
• UNLINK
• UNLOCK
• VIEW
HTTP Verbs

10. Request GUI
Route (URL)

11. Request GUI
• Inherit From Parent
• No Auth
• Bearer Token
• Basic Auth
• Digest Auth
• OAuth 1.0
• OAuth 2.0
• Hawk Authentication
• AWS Signature
• NTLM Authentication [Beta]
Authorization Type

12. Request GUI
• Inherit From Parent
• No Auth
• Bearer Token
• Basic Auth
• Digest Auth
• OAuth 1.0
• OAuth 2.0
• Hawk Authentication
• AWS Signature
• NTLM Authentication [Beta]
Authorization Type

13. Request GUI
• Key
• Value
• Description
• Bulk Edit
• Presets
HTML Headers

14. Request GUI
• Form Data
• Encoded Form Data
• Raw Data
• Text
• JSON
• XML
• more…
• Binary
Request Data

15. Request GUI
• Pre-request
• Tests
Scripting

16. Request GUI
• Body
• Cookies
• Headers
• Test Results
• Stats
• Status
• Time
• Size
Response

17. Basic API
endpoint
requests
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Postman in Practice
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18. Postman ( free for single users )
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19. Postman ( free for single users )
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20. Basic API
endpoint
requests
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Collections
(runner, console)
Postman in Practice
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21. Request GUI
• Name
• Description
• Authorization
• Pre-request Scripts
• Tests
• Variables
Collections

22. Request GUI
• Person
• Team ($)
Workspaces

23. Request GUI
• Collections
• Environment
• Iterations
• Log
• Data
• Persist Variables
Runner

24. Request GUI
• Console Log
• ( console stuff )
• Filter
Console

25. Postman ( free for single users )
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26. Postman ( free for single users )
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27. Basic API
endpoint
requests
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Collections
(runner, console)
Environments
(variables)
Postman in Practice
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28. Postman ( free for single users )
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29. Postman ( free for single users )
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30. Request GUI
• Console Log
• ( console stuff )
• Filter
Environments

31. Basic API
endpoint
requests
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Collections
(runner, console)
Environments
(variables)
Tests
Postman in Practice
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32. Postman ( free for single users )
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33. Postman ( free for single users )
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34. Basic API
endpoint
requests
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Collections
(runner, console)
Environments
(variables)
Tests Newman
Postman in Practice
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35. Postman ( free for single users )
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36. Postman ( free for single users )
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37. Postman ( free for single users )
Documentation

38. Postman ( free for single users )
• Option 1: Build API First and Test
• Option 2: Build Mock API and
• Option 3: Paired Development
Mock Servers

39. Postman ( free for single users )
• Stuff
Monitors

40. Postman ( free for single users )
Templates

41. Postman ( free for single users )
Templates

42. Postman ( free for single users )
Templates

43. Integrated
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Personalization Collaborative Intuitive Customization
Agile Coding Environment
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44. ColdBox API
BaseHandler.cfc

45. Build Automation
• Version Your Tests with Your Code
Pipelines

46. THANK YOU