About this Course

This comprehensive, hands-on course is designed to equip you with the essential skills to validate APIs efficiently, enhance performance, and ensure robust security. Led by Luca Berton, this course takes you through practical strategies and best practices for API testing, validation, and error handling, all while leveraging the powerful features of Postman. Whether you\'re looking to optimize API performance or streamline error resolution, this course will guide you with real-world examples, interactive exercises, and expert insights to elevate your API development skills. This course is ideal for developers, QA engineers, and IT professionals who want to advance their knowledge in API validation, testing, and error handling. If you aim to improve the reliability, performance, and security of your applications, this course is tailored for you. HTTP usage, authentication, and API concepts will help you make the most of the learning experience. Familiarity with how HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) work, understanding basic authentication mechanisms like API keys and tokens, and having experience with sending API requests will provide a solid starting point. These concepts will allow you to focus more on mastering advanced validation and testing techniques taught in this course. By the end of this course, you will be able to apply efficient API validation techniques, develop robust error-handling strategies, implement API testing for microservices, and leverage advanced validation methods like data and security checks to optimize API performance.

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