Automating Your Postman Tests

Automating Your Postman Tests - 1

Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

This Post will be a Two part series, where we will be automating our Postman tests using the Postman API. In this first part, we'll see about writing some manual tests in Postman, inspect responses, create workflows, create collection and a test suite In the Second part we'll see how CI/CD pipeline can be setup for running the tests automatically.

This article requires you to have a prequestiste basic understanding of how HTTP/HTTPS works, Methods of HTTP, and how to perform simple GET and POST requests.

Postman needs a live HTTP server to process its requests. For this , we'll use one of my starter express backend setup with database, which is available here.

lets clone the starter application, install the necessary dependencies & start the server.

curl -4 localhost:5000

We should see a response like this

{
  "ok": true,
  "message": "Hello from the Server"
}

Let's start using postman now :)

The backend starter template has a few routes setup, which we can use to test our postman tests.