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Postman and Newman

Explore how to install and use Postman, a GUI tool for running API tests, and Newman, its command-line counterpart for automation. Understand creating a Postman account, running tests, incorporating Newman in scripts, and generating HTML reports with HTMLExtra. This lesson equips you to confidently test APIs efficiently.

Postman

We’ll use Postman to run our API tests in this course. Unlike all the other applications we can install for this course, Postman is a GUI application. This means that in order to launch the application, we need to find it in our machine’s application menu. This will be a bit different for each operating system.

The best way to install it is to go to the Postman download page (https://www.getpostman.com/downloads), as ...