A hands-on guide to building API-driven workflows in Postman. Or, how you can combine APIs from Slack, AWS, GitHub, Dropbox and the likes to get things done. — Good APIs encapsulate domain knowledge. You may use Twilio to embed multi-channel in-app communications, Stripe to process payments and AWS to host your applications. When you use an API, you let domain experts take care of the nitty-gritties while you get your work done. …

A strategy to ensure all of your APIs are tested, all the time. — Software composition is increasingly moving towards an API-driven world. If you follow what we write and talk about at Postman, you have probably come across this statement multiple times. We cannot emphasize this enough. APIs are the building blocks of large software systems that are being built today. More and…

Implementing consumer-driven contract testing is a great way to maintain growing microservices stacks. It frees teams from getting blocked on API discrepancies when done regularly. Here is how Postman can help you do it better. — API behavior is typically described in documentation pages which list available endpoints, request data structures and expected response data structures, along with sample query and responses. These documentation are then used by people building systems that consume those APIs.

Is that who we are? — Do languages, religions and traditions separate us? Or is it the mindset of hating the other? Dislike of the unlike. Polarization. Us against them. Bread less valuable than cakes. Economy burning up nature, Not giving back what it takes. Are we not the Daleks of this world?

API developers and testers often take the manual testing route when it comes to debugging and testing their services. What are the challenges that they face in automating their API test suite? How can they begin their journey towards automation? — In my previous article, I talked about practices that can be implemented to build sustainable processes for integration testing of APIs and microservices. I had mentioned transitioning from manual to automated testing as one of the items on the checklist in that article. …

How the concept of integration testing changes and evolves with the ever-increasing complexity of a services and API driven software development landscape and how you can deal with it — a high level introduction — If you are responsible for shipping software that are built using multiple components, you would want to ensure that all these pieces work as expected when a user is using them in real life. …

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