I decided to do a dump or a one stop shop for learning postman. You can go through my other post or just read this one. Testing Basics So to get started with postman you will need your API url and whether it is a GET, POST, PUT, DELETE or various other method. Your Developer […]
Next is to setup a DevOps job you can go here to learn how to do that. For this section we will focus on the Execute shell and newman. With this I suggest going through Postman’s official documentation found here. This takes your postman game and ups it to be able to be leveraged with […]
Schema is something you need to test to make sure when they need a string that it is indeed a string. If you google postman and schema checking you will also find a cool tool called tv4. Do not use this as it is out dated and no longer supported. Please just create a test […]
Another javascript library built into Postman is Lodash. Looping Arrays with Lodash Sometimes you will want to iterate through an array. Maybe your response itself is an array. Luckily there is an easy for loop that can be used. This is use for where you see [] in the Json as that means what is […]
Postman has many built in Javascript libraries. Moment is one of the more useful ones for getting dates such as today’s date or tomorrow’s. Creating a Date with Moment Moment is another tool build into postman that can be used for your test. This is great for creating a rolling future, current or past date. […]
Postman uses the Chai Assertion Library so familiarize yourself with it. Using Chai Match Assertion You can define a format for your response using Regex and the match assertion. Below is an example of a data format for a mysql date. Date Format Multiple Assertions When using multiple assertions on a single data point you […]
In this blog we use setNextRequest to call to back to the same postman request. This allows us to reuse that request and change different variables for multiple test. Setting Up a Looping Test You can make a request loop back to itself and run again. You can also skip test and a bunch of […]
Sometimes the only thing you need to test is a header. This is when a PDF or something else is returned. Below is how you can test a header. Testing for Correct Headers and PDF Responses Below are test you can run on headers. The great thing about this is it allows us to find […]
Since I talked about reusable code in your environmental variable last week lets see how that works this week. Adding Reusable Code to Your Variable Using the Code in Test Links Postman Quick Reference GuideChai Assertion LibraryRegex Cheat SheetPostman: The Complete Guide on Udemy
Sorry it has been a while but I recently moved job and house, so life has been hectic. Next we will discuss variables. There are a lot of different variables you can use like Collection, Environmental, path, and others. The main 2 I use are Environmental so that we can have different variables for Dev, […]