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Challenge: API discovery

Challenge: API discovery - Postman Tutorial

From the course: API Testing Foundations

Challenge: API discovery

(lively music) - [Instructor] There's no such thing as a perfect API. I say this to absolve myself in case you find any bugs in my software but also because I want to encourage you to have confidence as a tester. My goal with this course is for you to learn how APIs work and how you can interact with them, but this course is about API testing, and so I also want to teach testing skills along the way. And, of course, an important part of testing is being able to design tests. When it comes to API Testing, good test design requires that you know what the API does, what endpoints it has and how they might relate to each other. To help you learn this, I'm going to give you a challenge that will give you some practice at discovering how an API works. For this challenge, I want you to explore the API for the Todo application, and you can look at the previous couple of videos to see how to get started with using it. And I want…

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