determinedTester's Journey

     In this post I want to talk about what I've learned about API headers. Recently I downloaded a free book on apple books app, "An Introduction to API" by Brain Cooksey. The author has explained information in simple terms with beginners in mind.    What are API headers?        Headers provide meta information about the request and response. They are items like, the client's request time, size of the request body, user-agent, content type of the request payload, authentication information...  Commonly used headers:    1. "User-Agent" : The client uses this header to tell the server what type of device you are using.         Ex:             Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15;             PostmanRuntime/7.32.3   2. "Content-Type": The client is telling the server that data in the request body is formatted a particular way. The server will also

  Postman celebrated the introduction of Postman Flows this week in San Francisco, on August 16th 2023. Following the release of Postman Flows a few months ago, Beth Marshall posted a YouTube video explaining how testers might use it for API testing procedures.   Ever since I started my API testing journey, I've been watching for Postman's announcements, challenges, You Tube Live sessions, and demonstrations. So I made the decision to go to this event as well.    When I arrived , Postman Flow was being used to welcome every registered guest. My name flashed on the welcome board when I clicked Run on their flow they had created after signing in (I forgot to take a picture of it). Greetings flow Two customers demonstrated how they are utilizing Flows to address issues and open up new possibilities. One of them includes a flow designed specifically for integration testing.   I was able to use Flows to design my very own, uniquely branded Postman YETI and select the swag I wanted (