From the course: Scripting for Testers
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Alternative tools for API scripting - Python Tutorial
From the course: Scripting for Testers
Alternative tools for API scripting
- [Instructor] We have shown you how to use Python to work with in API, and is a very powerful tool. Although much of this course is focused on Python, we do want to take a minute to show some other tools that are available to help you out with API testing. One very powerful and easy to use tool is Postman. This tool is a powerful Chrome browser plug in that allows you to make some requests and to see the responses in the UI. It's a very helpful tool to use when you're doing some initial exploration of your API. So to start using it, we can click on this requests block here. And since we're just trying something out, we're not going to save it, we'll just cancel this. And now you can see here that we have it set to using a get request by default. If we click on this, you can see there's a lot of different options available. A lot more options than the get, post, put, delete that we covered earlier. But those four still do cover most of the situations. But if you wanted to dive in…
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