Use of Postman

postman function (https://www.getpostman.com/features)

• Primarily used to simulate network request packets
• Quick Create request
• Replay, manage requests
• Quickly set up a network proxy

Installation:

• 　　Directly click on the logo in the top left corner of Google Chrome: And then click on Google Web Store
• Again out of the search box in the page directly search "Postman", add on it.

Use:

• 　　Postman the use of simple and clear, in the Address bar to enter the interface you want to test, set parameters, directly submitted on it. Support various access methods: Post,get,delete,put and so on.

Manage requests

• 　　Postman has a collection option in the left box, which allows you to save your test operations, form a system, and even export these configurations for large-scale testing, which is followed by an introduction
• Late in use, only need to find the corresponding request name in this collections, you can directly use the request

Environment variables

• 　　Select "Manage environments--add" to set the environment information in the page, for example, add an environment variable: key--url, value--http://www.baidu.com
• The use of environment variables is very simple, as I added above, directly using {{URL}}, used Angularjs must be familiar with this usage!
• We can enter {{URL}} directly in the URL, then send, will find that we directly on the URL to enter http://www.baidu.com on the no difference
• Multiple different environment variables can be set to switch

Postman combined with Newman

• Newman
  • Official note: Postman ' s command-line companion lets do amazing things! With Newman, you can integrate Postman collections with your build system. Or You can run the automated tests for your API through a cron job.
  • Overview: Integrated Postman API Test command-line execution tool
  • Home: Https://www.npmjs.com/package/newman
  • Based on node. JS, can be installed in Linux/windows/mac
  • installation command:

    NPM Install-g Newman

  • Verify that the installation is successful

  • Newman-v

    The version number appears, the installation succeeds

  • Run as, execute Postman exported collection file

  • Newman-c *.json.postman_collection

• Newman command-line operations
  • Executes the specified collection file

  • Newman-c *.json.postman_collection

  • Collection files and environment files for the execution of pointers

  • Newman-c *.json.postman_collection-e *.postman_environment

  • Execute the collection saved to the server

  • Newman-u Https://www.getpostman.com/collections/cb208e7e64056f5294e5

  • Loop through collection Files 5 times

  • Newman-u Https://www.getpostman.com/collections/cb208e7e64056f5294e5-n 5

  • Detailed Newman command usage

  •   Usage:newman [Options] Options:-H,--help output usage information-v,--version  Output the version number-c,--collection [file] Specify a Postman collection as a JSON [file]-U, --url [url] Specify a Postman collection as a [url]-F,--folder [Folder-name] Run a single Folde R from a collection. To be used with-c or-u-E,--environment [file] Specify a Postman environment as a JSON [file]-E,--export               Environment [file] Specify an output file to dump the Postman environment before exiting [file]-D,--data [file] Specify a data file to use either JSON or CSV-G,--global [file] Specify a Postman globals file [File]-G,--exportglobals [file] Specify an output file to dump Globals before exiting [file]-y,--delay [num BER] Specify a delay (in ms) between Requests-r,--requesttimeout [number] Specify a request timeout (in Ms For Requests-r,--avoidredirects prevents Newman from automatically following redirects-s,--stoponerr Or Stops the runner with code=1 if a test case fails-j,--nosummary doesn ' t show the S                   Ummary for each iteration-n,--number [number] Define the number of iterations to Run-c,--nocolor                       Disable colored output-k,--insecure Disable strict ssl-l,--tls Use Tlsv1-n,--encoding [Encoding-type] Specify a encoding for the response. Supported values is Ascii,utf8,utf16le,ucs2,base64,binary,hex-x,--exitcode Continue running tests E Ven after a failure, but exit with Code=1. Incompatible with--stoponerror-o,--outputfile [file] Path to file where output should is written [file]- O,--outputfileverbose [file] Path to file where full request and responses should is logged [file]-T,--testreportfi Le [file] Path to file where results should is written as JUnit XML [file]-I,--import [file] Import a Postman backup F                    Ile, and save collections, environments, and Globals [file] (incompatible with any option except pretty)-P,--pretty               Enable Pretty-print while saving imported collections, environments, and globals-h,--html [file]     Export a HTML report to a specified file [file]-W,--whitescreen Black text for white screen -L,--recurselimit [limit] does not run recursive resolution more than [limit] times. Default = 10. Using 0 would prevent any Varialbe resolution Newman are a command-line collection runner for Postman.    Must specify a collection file or a collection URL to run Newman a collection file or URL is mandatory Examples: Newman-c postman_collection newman-u postman_collection-e postman_environment newman-c postman_collection-f SAM Ple_folder for more documentation, issues and examples HeaD over to Https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman 

• Jenkins Integration
  • Since Newman supports command line operation, it is easy to integrate Jenkins. Add command line to the job of Jenkins, with the following content:

  • Newman-c *.json.postman_collection--exitcode 1

Use of Postman