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I am learning API testing using Postman, do I also need to know Web services testing? [closed]

I am learning API testing using Postman, do I also need to know Web services testing? I know that we can use JSON, XML, and other formats to transfer data to an API, but we can only use XML format in ...
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What is the difference between Bearer token and API key authorisation in Postman API testing? [closed]

I am a complete newbie in API testing. Now, while sending a GET or POST request , we need to authorize the calling project. How does it work internally and what's the difference between API key and a ...
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Postman - Compare response body with database data

Request Body: { "StudentInfo":{ "Student":[ { "StudentId":"001" } } } Response Body { "Studentinfo":{ "Student&...
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How can we validate the response body using Tests in postman

Request Body { "StudentInfo":{ "Student":[ { "StudentId":"001" } } } Response Body { "Studentinfo":{ "Student":[ { "StudentId":&...
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Postman: mock server input parameters

I have created a mock server. I access it via {{url}}/mock1 and the response body I have mocked is the below. [ { "ID": 1, "LETTER": "A" }, { ...
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Is there any way to import postman collection into playwright?

Details: We have several thousand APIs in various postman collection. Our customer wants to have them customized accordingly, towards E-2-E testing. The customer would like to use Playwright for ...
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API Testing and automation framework [closed]

I wonder if it is 100% necessary to use an automation framework like KARATE instead of API Tools like POSTMAN. Usually I automate different websites by using SELENIUM & JAVA and I try different ...
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POSTMAN - How to fetch data using POST method instead of GET?

This is the url on which i'm sending a GET request to access data - reqres.in/api/users?page=2 The data i'm getting in response is somewhat like this (id - 1, name - john, job - QA ; id - 2, name - ...
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Some value from Postman test undefined

I need to create tests in Postman for running key values for the AI Conversation app. I have created tests, where I have used the logic below, where I can see all of the values after a test run except ...
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How to use JMeter for parallel executions running using postman?

How to use JMeter for parallel executions running using postman. I want to execute close to 4000 to 5000 requests id`s at the same time and see the results.
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How to execute parallel run in postman for get option in one go?

Need to know how to run parallel executions in postman for get options with single access id but with multiple requests
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How to validate nested array from JSON response using Postman?

I am trying to validate GET method API response JSON using Postman. I have tried some of online suggestion but nothing worked for me. In my testcase i am validating that List tag is showing or not. ...
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How to verify particular values in JSON response - Postman

The response body looks like this. [ { "id": 1, "wardName": "Unit1" }, { "id": 2, "wardName": "Unit2&...
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Should i learn SOAP API or Rest Assured API Testing? [closed]

I am new to API testing world. Should i learn Rest Assured API testing using maven and eclipse or should i learn all things on Soap UI or Postman tool? Which tool is more in demand in IT industry and ...
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Passing test results from Postman Newman to Elasticsearch

Any idea how to pass postman newman test results to Elasticsearch ? I need to send every single test name, request url + test resut to elastic for kibana visualization. There's no native support from ...
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Search for minimum number of occurrences of a substring

The following is the Body of the response: { "downloadTime": "2021:03:17T17:52:21Z", "downloadTimeStamp": 1616003541, "genome": "hg38", ...
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Reconfiguring and checking monitors in Postman

Postman offers the possiblity to create monitors (Launchpad -> View More -> Create a monitor). I know that it is possible to view the list of them from Postman workspace on the web, but is it ...
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Postman proxy does not save URLs of some resources

I asked this on https://community.postman.com/t/postman-proxy-does-not-save-urls-of-some-resources/19376, but no answers this far. I’ve turned on Postman Proxy and configured Firefox (Tools -> ...
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API Testing on production - what requests shouldn't test?

I've manage to get new job and what I can say so far - expectations for me are high. I never used to test API on production - usually I've been teached to test API on dev/test enviroment, but in ...
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How to automate GraphQL tests with Postman

My company is moving from REST APIs to GraphQL. I'm trying to use Postman (which I'm new to) to automate some tests for the GraphQL stuff, and I'm running into issues. The manual side of Postman ...
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I have automated Soap request via Rest Assured code, but its written that Rest assured API can only be used for rest service [duplicate]

Here is my code public class xmlreq extends TestBase { @Test public void buildRequest() { logger.info("starting"); RestAssured.baseURI="http://webservices.oorsprong.org/...
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Postman gives There was an error in evaluating the test script: JSONError: No data, empty input at 1:1 ^ error

I'm trying to create a postman script that sends an SMS message to a phone. When I send the message I get this error: There was an error in evaluating the test script: JSONError: No data, empty input ...
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How to fetch the list of newly created time entries alone using Postman? [closed]

From this json, I need to fetch created_at. How should I do it in Postman? { "meta": { "total_logged": 127200, "total_logged_per_team_member": [ ...
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How to spoof a third party API

Our application does calls to a third party API for completing a few tasks. This endpoint has an issue in the test environment, and management has asked us to mock this environment so when the app or ...
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Writing Integration Tests programmatically vs using Postman for REST APIs

I am developing REST APIs in my project and using .net core 3.1. Various best practices suggest that we should write Unit Tests as well as Integration Tests for our project. I agree with the point of ...
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How do I verify a value from a CSV file using Postman test [duplicate]

I'm using Postman to push data from a CSV in my Google cloud bucket to an app. I need to write a test to verify that one of the values in the CSV is all in uppercase.
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AssertionError: verify response body as a test in postman

This is the response from Postman: { "data": [ { "firstname": "tahaq", "lastname": "postmanq", "accountenabled": "true", "email": "tahaiq@...
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Passing global variables to Newman (Postman) from Jenkins

I have a Postman Collection with Global Variables that I am running via Jenkins (successfully), but I want to expose choices for the variables as Choice Parameters within Jenkins. I asked an initial ...
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Postman PUT returns success, but parameters are null in response body

I am trying to update employee details on following URI http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/update/24 The request body is: { "employee_name": "DorisWan", "employee_salary": "50000", "...
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Exposing Postman Global variables as Jenkins Choice Parameters

I have a postman collection which I have managed to run from Jenkins using Newman. I have a groovy pipeline in which I install the dependencies included in my package.json (Newman in this case). ...
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Printing Response body element in Test results in Postman

I need to print one specific response element from the response body of an API in the test results section of Postman.
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Testcase Python Request: 405 Error despite not accepting the certificates

Details Currently I have the problem that I cannot accept the certificate on our test page. We use Python requests for our test cases and unittest from Python directly. We have also excluded the ...
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Collection Variable is not being assigned

If Env-Variable drawingmanage equals false the value gets assigned successfully(else block) whereas if it is true the value doesn't assign(if block) if(pm.variables.get("drawingmanage") == 'true'){ ...
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API Management Tool Recommendation

I am looking for a tool for API testing and collaboration that offers the following: Creating a workspace that can be shared with a limited number of people. A good number of collections without ...
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How to send double quotes in postman csv data file

I have the following request body: { username:{{user}}, password:{{pass}} } The expected structure of the request is : { username:"something", password:"something" } if the request body is ...
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Consume POST request data to GET and DEL requests

I get an id from a POST request and I want to use that id in the GET and DEL requests. I don't want to do it manually; if there is automated way that my read and delete requests consume my POST ...
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How to export single API request with body in Postman so it can be imported

Postman can export whole collections, and also single requests. I'd like to export just one request, so I can send it as an example to somebody else who can import it in their Postman via (possible ...
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Testing REST - submitting a web-form. Identifying why the server responses with 500 for some emails and for some - 200

The troubled email is teststudent12@skyeng.ru, the URL is https://junior.skyeng.ru/online-uroki-po-matematike/ (form is placed almost at footer). The website to test is in Russian. If you want to ...
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How to analyse newman htmlextra report?

Hi could someone explain the fields in Postman htmlextra report. I am not able to understand why testscripts fail shows '0' even though two assertions failed I only have 15 pm.expect in my ...
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Decoding JWT and testing results in Postman

We are implementing a new service which requires Authorisation by the way of a JWT. I already have the submission and returned body containing the "access_token" My question is how do I set up a ...
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Postman or any API tools for API cache testing

my application (Restful API, no UI interface at this moment) has the Cache Async in memory functionality at each GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. Does Postman or any API tools has the ability to test the cache ...
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Postman API test structure

Recently I started writing tests for our API. However, I have faced some issues which I think it is critical to think at the start. How should I structure my tests in terms of setup and cleanup phase (...
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Schema Validation in Postman

I'm having trouble validating a schema in Postman using tv4 inside the tests tab - it is always returning a true test, no matter what I feed it. I am at a complete loss and could really use a hand - ...
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Compare the date from a API key value in Postman

I have a scenerio where I need to compare a date from an API response with today's date and check whether it is less than or equal. The API response will give me a JSON object and in that JSON the ...
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Print API response in "Test results" tab in Postman

I'm using Postman to automate an API using Newman. But the response body of the API call is not showing in the Postman "Test results" tab. var body = JSON.parse(responseBody); tests["Response ...
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Error showing for url when try to run api test script with Newman

I'm beginner to REST API testing. I wrote some scripts for some scenarios using postman and tried to run with Newman. (In there URL defined as environment variable.) Showing errors for that URL when ...
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How to verify response body as a test in postman

I want to verify the response data as a test using Postman. For example, given the response below: { "data": { "id": 2, "first_name": "Janet", "last_name": "Weaver", "avatar":"...
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How to identify a specific location in returned Json through a postman test

When submitting an order to an API we get a Json response containing: "AMLResults": [ { "amlResult": [ { "addresses": [ { ...
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Postman - flags for different requests on different environments?

I have serviceA, serviceB, serviceC..., up to service L. I have a collection with requests for all those services. Is it possible to set somehow flags for postman runner for requests to be run on ...
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Web Service Testing Site

I practice web services testing but I don't have any web service testing site. Could anyone please suggest a good web service testing site? Please help. Thanks in advance.
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