How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API

Postman is a great tool to test REST/SCIM API. The same applies for the case of OIM (Oracle Identity Management), where you can do load test batch operation to test various scenarios. Read this blog to see a simple step-by-step use case scenario where you can run multiple test API calls using PostMan for a number of iterations, by mimicking a real-time multi user environment.

Step 1:

Set up the individual test cases for REST services with the respective headers and authorization details.

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 1

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 2

Step 2:

Verify that each of the services are working fine and completing successfully.

Step 3:

Add the services to Collection and order them as per the specific execution order.

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 3

Next, from Save in the right-hand corner, select “Save As” and select the Collection to be added to.

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 4

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 5

Step 4:

Lastly, run the collection and set the number of iterations for it along with the time interval between each of the iterations.

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 6

Inspired ECM blog - Andrew Blackman - How To Use Postman To Successfully Test And Manage Your API - 7

If you’d like more information about testing APIs, or help upgrading your Oracle Identity Management environment from 11g to 12c, we’re here to help! Contact us at Inspired ECM to let our experienced consultants get your environments running efficiently and successfully today.