In celebration of his recent book release, Testing Web APIs, Mark will be running a series of 99 Minute Workshops on API testing that will take you from beginner to advanced users of APIs. Starting with API Testing 101:

Web APIs are a dominant technology on the Web and testers are increasingly being asked to test them directly. But how do you test an API exactly? How do you create a request and how do you decipher it's response to work out if it's working as expected. In API Testing 101 Mark Winteringham will take you through your first steps of setting up API testing tooling, creating requests to retrieve and store data, and detecting if there are bugs to report.

Join this workshop and start building your foundations in API testing today.

 

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  • API Testing 101: Sending our first requests
    Mark Winteringham
    99 Minute Workshop

    API Testing 101: Sending our first requests

    What

    99 Minute Workshop

    Description

    In celebration of his recent book release, Testing Web APIs, Mark will be running a series of 99 Minute Workshops on API testing that will take you from beginner to advanced users of APIs. Starting with API Testing 101:

    Web APIs are a dominant technology on the Web and testers are increasingly being asked to test them directly. But how do you test an API exactly? How do you create a request and how do you decipher it's response to work out if it's working as expected. In API Testing 101 Mark Winteringham will take you through your first steps of setting up API testing tooling, creating requests to retrieve and store data, and detecting if there are bugs to report.

    Join this workshop and start building your foundations in API testing today.

    Takeaways

    • Execute HTTP requests to retrieve data
    • Examine HTTP responses to determine results
    • Execute HTTP requests to create data
    • Interpret JSON formatted payloads

    Prerequisites

    Ideally you will have Postman installed before the session starts.

    Speaker

    Mark Winteringham
    Mark Winteringham
    OpsBoss
    Mark Winteringham is a tester, toolsmith and the Ministry of Testing OpsBoss with over 10 years experience providing testing expertise on award-winning projects across a wide range of technology sectors including BBC, Barclays, UK Government and Thomson Reuters. He is an advocate for modern risk-based testing practices and trains teams in Automation in Testing, Behaviour Driven Development and Exploratory testing techniques. He is also the co-founder of Ministry of Testing Essentials a community raising awareness of careers in testing and improving testing education. You can find him on Twitter @2bittester or at mwtestconsultancy.co.uk / automationintesting.com