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Test Automation Engineering Handbook

Test Automation Engineering Handbook

By : Manikandan Sambamurthy
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Test Automation Engineering Handbook

Test Automation Engineering Handbook

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By: Manikandan Sambamurthy

Overview of this book

This book helps you build a better understanding of test automation and aids in bridging the gap between testing and test automation. The book has been divided into three sections with the first section focusing on preparing you for testing and test automation fundamentals. By the end of this section, you’ll have an understanding of some common automation terms, definitions, and roles. The second section covers the practical implementation of test automation for mobile, web, API and performance. The third section will help you understand how test automation works with CI/CD, and explore the common issues and pitfalls when executing test automation. By the end of this book, you’ll have a better understanding of automation, addressing the common pain points and best practices around test automation.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: The Basics
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Part 2: Practical Affairs
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Part 3: Continuous Learning

Chapter 7, Test Automation for APIs

  1. The primary focus of API testing is to validate the business logic of APIs, while other types of testing include performance and security. It involves the collection of test data to be sent in as JSON requests to the API and validating the response for accuracy. Some items to look for in the response are status, syntax, schema conformance, and functional correctness.
  2. Postman provides a way to group API requests using collections. This helps organize a workspace by breaking it down, and a workspace can also be sorted into multiple collections.
  3. Snippets are small code blocks readily available in Postman and can be selected for use in tests. They give an overview of frequently used API validations and save time in writing them.
  4. Postman allows the chaining of API requests, which enables the usage of variables from one request to another. In this manner, multiple requests can be tested as a series of calls.
  5. Newman is a command-line...

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