I have 10 POST requests in a collection and it doesn't have any dependency on each request. When I tried to execute the collection it was running sequentially and it will be time-consuming. As all the requests are independent of each other, Is it possible to execute the 10 POST requests in parallel so that it saves a lot of time.
Is it possible via postman or do I need to look for other tools or any workaround in postman?
As described on this page: parallelly request source
It is necessary to create an sh file to execute the queries in parallel
newman run postman/smoke-test/collection.json -e postman/smoke-test/environments/staging.json
You can learn what is Newman in this page: newman doc
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Some set of the requests are to run under few environments , so i want to make few iterations in collection runner and in a test script of last request to change environment , to make next iteration run on next environment -
Need your help to change environment through script if it is possible
This is not possible at the moment, but there is a workaround (copied from the Postman Community):
You should be able to accomplish by making use of pm.sendRequest and
the Postman API. So you'd use pm.sendRequest to fetch the relevant
Environment and save it to a local variable in your script and use it
accordingly.
More information here:
https://learning.postman.com/docs/writing-scripts/script-references/postman-sandbox-api-reference/#sending-requests-from-scripts
https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/variables/#defining-local-variables
There's a feature request in the Postman github repository for it: Change environment scope in pre-request or test scripts #9061
As a user, I have several API collections created using postman and now I've integrated the Newman-Runner-CLI.
My question is that, is there any way to skip some of the selected API Requests from each collection, or is there is any way to add "Skipped API Requests" in a single file so during the execution process of Newman-Runner, it will automatically skip those added requests?
Thanks in advance.
Apparently, there's no way to find out if a collection is being run via Postman or Newman.
According to this thread, you could manually set a variable at the start of the execution (see Postman forum).
You could then steer the execution with postman.setNextRequest() depending on the value of that variable. See: https://learning.postman.com/docs/running-collections/building-workflows/
I have an ever-growing collection of Postman tests for my API that I regularly export and check in to source control, so I can run them as part of CI via Newman.
I'd like to automate the process of exporting the collection when I've added some new tests - perhaps even pull it regularly from Postman's servers and check the updated version in to git.
Is there an API I can use to do this?
I would settle happily for a script I could run to export my collections and environments to named json files.
Such a feature must be available in Postman Pro, when you use the Cloud instance feature(I haven't used it yet, but I'll probably do for continuous integration), I'm also interested and I went through this information:
FYI, that you don't even need to export the collection. You can use Newman to talk to the Postman cloud instance and call collections directly from there. Therefore, when a collection is updated in Postman, Newman will automatically run the updated collection on its next run.
You can also add in the environment URLs to automatically have Newman environment swap (we use this to run a healthcheck collection across all our environments [Dev, Test, Stage & Prod])
You should check this feature, postman licences are not particularly expensive, it can be worth it.
hope this helps
Alexandre
You have probably solved your problem by now, but for anyone else coming across this, Postman has an API that lets you access information about your collections. You could call /collections to get a list of all your collections, then query for the one(s) you want by their id. (If the link doesn't work, google "Postman API".)
I am using the postman for the first time and need to generate multiple requests.
I added them in collections and it seems that they are executed in parallel. Whereas I want to execute them serially.
Basically depending on the response of the first request I will decide whether I have to send the second request or not?
How to do this?
I'm not sure which version of Postman you are using, but collections allow you to store and group together useful requests so that you can easily find them and execute them individually.
Version 3 has a Runner Mode that is enabled when you install the Jetpacks premium extension, this has support for executing collections. Please check if you are in the Builder or Runner mode. If you are in the Runner mode, switch back to the Builder mode so you can execute requests individually again.
I'm using the Postman Jetpacks tests collections, they work very well, but I must run the test inside the Postman application.
Actually I need to run the tests I designed in Postman Jetpack using a command line to make it scriptable. My approach is to use Newman commands line to be able to execute the test collections. However looks like I can only execute requests using Newman instead of tests collections or even isolated tests.
Is it posible to run tests collection created on Jetpack with Newman?
After some research I found out that is possible to execute Postman Jetpack collections with Newman, Newman will also pass the tests and display the information properly.
This is an interesting way to do Integration tests in for APIs