postman

More than manual API Testing

A Presentation

by Ronak Raithatha

Agenda

Introduction

Problem Statement

Automated Testing

Uptime Monitoring

Q&A

Access Control

Introduction

Software Engineer for 8 years.

Working as a product engineer, consultant,

infrastructure engineer, and contractor.

Technical Background

Introduction

• Taught the MEAN stack, Git/GitHub, and OOP at a local Bootcamp for 2 years.

• Taught Introduction to Programming 
  at a local high school for 2 years.

Introduction

extracurriculars

Introduction

• I am an avid Dungeons & Dragons player.
• I enjoy playing video games with my friends and love improving my desk setup.

About Me

• Recently bought a house and I have a small identity crisis every time I buy a tool at Home Depot. 

Problem Statement

The Client

A Weather API Company that provides and API through Postman. 

Looking at Postman features for help with Access Control, Automated Testing, and Monitoring. 

Problem Statement

Granular Access Control

I am looking into the possibility of using Postman in my team.  From my initial investigations, it looks like the content created within my Postman team is visible and editable to anyone on the team.

This is great but concerns me from a workflow/compliance perspective.  Can you tell me how Postman handles this?

Problem Statement

Automated Testing

We are looking to bolster our API testing during the CI/CD process.

How can Postman help me with testing automation?

Problem Statement

API UPTIME

Since customers will be using our API on the Postman platform, I would like to be notified if my API ever stops responding. 

What sort of monitoring tools does Postman provide?

Granular Access Control

Role-Based Access Control

Postman provides Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for specific and granular access to individuals. This promotes regulation on access, and separation of concerns among team members.

Granular Access Control

Role-Based Access Control

Some examples of roles at a team level include:

• Super Admin: Manages high-level access to all controls within Postman
• Admin: Manages access within teams
• Billing: Manages team plan and payments
• Developer: Has access to all team resources and workspaces

Automated Testing

Forms of Automated Testing

Testing an API is an integral part of using Postman, right after exposing an API.
Postman offers 3 ways to help with testing automation:
Collection Runners, Newman, and Monitors.

For Automated Testing, we will focus on the Collection Runners and Newman.

Automated Testing

Collection Runners

The Collection Runner is a waterfall automation of all the tests written in a Collection.

Automated Testing

NewMAn

Newman is an open-source library developed by Postman that allows programmatic execution of Collection Runners.