INCLUDE AUTOMATED RESTFUL API TESTING USING POSTMAN, NEWMAN, AND JENKINS If you’re going to automate one kind of tests at your company, API testing is the perfect place to start! It’s fast and simple to write as well as fast to execute. If your company writes an API for its software, then you understand the need and importance of testing it. In this webinar, we’ll do a live demonstration of how you can use free tools, such as Postman, Newman, and Jenkins, to enhance your software quality and security. Elise Carmichael will cover: Why your API tests should be included with your CI Real examples using Postman, Newman and Jenkins + Newman An active Q&A where you can get your automated testing questions answered, live! To get the most out of this session: Download these free tools prior to the webinar: Postman, Newman (along with node and npm) and Jenkins Read up on how to parse JSON objects using javascript *Can’t attend the webinar live? Register and we will send the recording after the webinar is over.

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Include Automated Restful API Testing
with your CI using
Postman, Newman, and Jenkins
Elise Carmichael

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Elise Carmichael
Vice President of Quality
QASymphony

3. Agenda
• There are so many types of testing, why focus on API?
• Why use Postman, Newman, and Jenkins?
• How to write tests in Postman
• How to use Newman to execute Postman tests from a commandline
• How to include your tests in Jenkins
• Note: Focusing on REST

4. • Security
• Security
• Security
• Security
• Security
• Security
Why API Testing?

5. • Quick tests to write, run, quick
feedback in CI jobs
• Reusability for performance testing
• Put some basic scenarios into your
production monitoring system to be
aware of outages before your
customers
Why API Testing?

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• We use Postman at QA
Symphony for our REST
API tests.
• It’s
• Free
• Very Popular
• Easy to use
• Works well with CI
Postman
https://www.getpostman.com/

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• We use Newman to integrate
API tests into CI at QA
Symphony
• It’s
• Free
• Works seamlessly with
Postman
• Executes tests from the
command line so that they
can be included in CI
Newman
https://www.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collection_runs/command_line_integration_with_newman

8. Jenkins
https://jenkins.io/
• Jenkins is one of several tools
we use at QA Symphony to
assist with Continuous
Integration
• It’s
• Free
• Popular
• Very, very flexible with many
plugins (even qTest has one!)

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Postman Examples
1. Read Some API
Documentation (let’s use
qTest’s API)
2. Make a call
1. Login & Create Test Case
3. Test the call
1. Verify Status Code
2. Verify Speed
3. Verify Response

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Postman Examples (continued)
1. Set up variables (to use/store in
the next call)
2. Check for a security flaw
1. Same verifications
3. Runner GUI
4. Download a collection
5. Download the environment
(staging/dev)

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Newman Example
1. Let’s test that same collection
from the commandline

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Jenkins Example
1. Simple shell to execute
newman
2. Use script to upload test results
to qTest, just to show the full
cycle if we wanted to not just
include API testing in our CI, but
to have a documented, easy to
read record of what was tested

13. I just showed you one
example of a tool set that
you could use, but there
are countless others!
Other Options!

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Test Early;
Test Often!

15. Thank You!
Elise Carmichael
elisecarmichael@qasymphony.com
Q&A

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