Advanced AI and Documentation Techniques

Advanced AI and Documentation Techniques

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General Information
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Advanced API Testing:
Harnessing AI and
Documentation Techniques



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4. Agenda
1Dive into Testing
2Where does AI Play a role ?
3Introducing Postbot
5Resources and Q&A
4Demo
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5. ●Participate in the Poll
○What do you currently use AI for ?
■Development
■Testing
■Documentation
■Administrative Tasks
■All of the above
■Other
○How familiar are you with Postbot?
■Beginner
■Intermediate
■Expert




A little about you
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8. Types of API Tests
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9. API Testing Methods
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10. Where Does
AI Play a Role ?
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11. Postbot is your
AI Assistant
“As our technologies have
improved, so have our abilities”
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12. Postbot’s goal is to increase developer productivity
by saving time writing API tests and documentation,
and helping debug requests.
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13. How can Postbot help you
Postbot is your AI assistant
for API workflows in Postman
Postbot can help you:
Write tests
Visualize responses
Get help using AI Expert Curated Support
Write documentation
Debug API Requests and Tests
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14. Postbot launched!
● Basic functionality of bootstrapping your API tests
● No Natural Language Interface (yet)
May 2023
Postbot rolled out in Open Beta
● Natural Language Interface via Chat UI
● Generate tests for collections
● Fix broken tests
July 2023
Inline Autocomplete Features
● Get smart suggestions while writing tests
● Get autocomplete suggestions for test code
Oct 2023
Postbot Global User Interface
● Postbot universally accessible via status bar
● Visualize your API responses
● Get help from the Postman Documentation
Sept 2023
Instant API Documentation
● Conversational Agent Interface
● Postbot for Enterprise!
Nov 2023
April 2024 Major Architectural Upgrades
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● Generate API Request Documentation
The Postbot Journey

15. Demo
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16. Increase productivity
through Test Script
Generation
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17. Collection Test Suite creates dozens
of tests at the same time.
●Go to Collection Overview
and open Postbot
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●Check all tests created and
edit inline
Collection Test
Suite
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18. In a request, Postbot will
provide contextual information
to guide the developer.
●“Add tests to this request”
●“Test for response”
Individual
Tests
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19. Autocomplete allows developers
to use natural language to
write tests
●After the creating the test
name pause after the
closing single quotation
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●Need to have a valid
response before using
autocomplete
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●Like other copilots, tab to
confirm autocomplete
Autocomplete
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20. Quickly debug issues
with requests and tests
●Postbot can debug and
resend requests for you

●Postbot can fix any errors
in the tests scripts

●Googling issues is
so last year.
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Fix Tests & Requests
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21. Documentation
Generation &
Visualization
No more tribal knowledge
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22. Writing documentation is made
simpler through Postbot
●No excuse to not write
documentation
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●Easy tribal knowledge
transfer
Documentation
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23. Create visual representation
of JSON responses
●No more scrolling through
endless JSON objects
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●Non-developers can
quickly understand
response data
Visualization
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24. Postman AI
Expert Support
IN APP CURATED
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25. You can ask Postbot questions
about Postman app and it'll
respond with expertly curated
instruction from multiple sources.
Postman
Support
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26. Interesting Use Cases
CTA : Tag @getpostman on
Twitter to share your Postbot
Use Cases
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27. Postman Blogs
blog.postman.com
Postman Academy
academy.postman.com
Learning Center
learning.postman.com
Additional Resources
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28. Please tell us about
your experience!

FEEDBACK SURVEY

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29. Thank You
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