From the course: API Testing Foundations
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Your first tool: Postman - Postman Tutorial
From the course: API Testing Foundations
Your first tool: Postman
- [Instructor] If we want to test APIs, we're going to need to use tools that will let us easily send and receive commands from the APIs we're testing. In this course, it's not about one particular tool, so we're not just going to stick to talking about one thing, but I do want to introduce you to Postman as one of the main tools that we'll use. So, Postman is easy and intuitive to use, and it's also free and has a large and active user base, so there's many resources if you find yourself Googling for answers. You can install it on whatever platform you're on from their site here at postman.com. And once you've done that, you can open the Postman app and get started right away. You can also access Postman directly from the web by going to web.postman.co, where you'll be taken to a page where you need to sign in to use it. So, if you don't have an account, you should set one up. It is possible to use the desktop version…
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