Understanding Newman run options
Now that you have Newman installed and running, it's time to look at how to use it in a variety of cases. You have already seen how to run it with a simple collection, but what about if you have environment variables or data-driven tests? In this section, I will show you how to run Postman collections, including collections that contain environment variables and data-driven tests. I will also show you some of the options that you can use to control Newman's behavior.
Using environments in Newman
Often, a collection will have variables defined in an environment. Requests in that collection will need those variables when they are run, but the values don't get exported with the collection. To see this in practice, you can modify the Test GET request in the Newman Test collection that you made earlier by following these steps:
- Create a new environment called
Newman Test Env. - Modify the URL field of the Test GET request to...