Workshop 5A | Let’s Unleash API Performance Testing with Postman by Jency Stella

Are you using Postman for API Testing? Do you want to perform a load test on them? Then my talk is apt to hear.

Speaker:

Nowadays, one of the most used tools to do functional testing against an API is Postman in consideration to its handy and simplified features. We have ample resources to guide us with Postman testing essentials, but there is limited awareness of some interesting concepts tied up in the API Performance Testing genre. APIs should be functionally correct, as well as available, fast, secure, and reliable. API testing is essential not just for making promises to customers (and keeping them) but also for gathering data about API performance to improve development.

API testing, however, especially when it comes to performance, is a vast field, and you might get lost in the jargon. To help you navigate through your API performance tests,our very own friendly tool Postman offers a few options to kick-start the journey:

● We can integrate Jmeter with Postman and convert Postman API Tests to JMeter scripts for Load Tests

● We now have built-in capabilities for testing our API’s performance

In my recent area of exploring the Postman tool uncovered these interesting topics on API Performance Testing, so here I’m to retrospect my learnings and share my knowledge with everyone.

Top Takeaways:

Audience will understand the following –

● A Glimpse of API performance testing

● How to use Postman for API performance testing

● How to configure the load to simulate real-world traffic

● Visualizing the metrics of a performance test