Tool Postman

Tool-Postman

• Post man available in two forms:
  • As a native app (More robust and has many features)
  • As a browser plugin (light weight)

Language

• JavaScript

Important Things:

• Postman Interceptor Extension
• Work-spaces
• Collections
• Newman

Advantages:

• Easy-to-use UI.
• Short learning curve
• Good community.
• Operation speed.
• Smooth work across all desktop platforms.
• Opportunity to create a workspace, cloud storage, etc.
• Tests start from the command line.
• Traffic interception from mobile devices.

Disadvantages:

1. works only with JavaScript.
2. You cannot set up fully-featured automation with files upload on a server.
3. Prepared in advance request templates cannot be reused.
4. Cannot build up an intelligent project structure for the increased number of tests.
5. No opportunity to conduct a debugging using breakpoints.

DownloadLinks:

• https://medium.com/velotio-perspectives/api-testing-using-postman-and-newman-6c68c33303fc
• https://www.getpostman.com/downloads/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/postman-beginners-cheat-sheet-api-testing-glenn-raul-robinson
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/newman
• https://www.getpostman.com/pricing
• https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collection-runs/command-line-integration-with-newman/

CheatSheets:

• https://github.com/rajendrapenumalli/API_Automation_Notes/blob/master/CheatSheets/2018-02-06-Postman-Cheat-sheet.pdf