API Lifecycle, Part 1: Build and Test an API
Aired: Wednesday, May 11, 8:00 a.m. (PDT)
Join us for a one-hour, intermediate-level Postman learning session geared specifically for API developers, API producers, and anyone else invested in building quality APIs. We'll walk through the initial stages of the API lifecycle, including designing, defining, documenting, and testing an API.
Here's what we'll do in this session:
- Introduce the stages of the API lifecycle
- Review API-first model of software development
- Define foundational operations around an API including source control and collaboration
- Leverage Postman entities such as collections, environments, and mock servers
- Explore the industry-standard vocabulary of OpenAPI
- Design an API using OpenAPI
- Generate documentation from an OpenAPI specification
- Implement contract tests derived from API artifacts
Prerequisites:
- Create a Postman account, and then sign in.
- Download and install the Postman desktop agent, which will enable you to use the web version of Postman that we use in Postman Intergalactic sessions.
- General familiarity with the OpenAPI Specification and the API lifecycle.
Speakers
W. Ian Douglas
Senior Developer Advocate
Postman
Vaishnavi Challa
Technical Support Engineer
Postman
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