Newman the cli Companion for Postman

Using Newman, one can effortlessly run and test a Postman Collections directly from the command-line. Now in a task!

How to

You can include this task in a build or release pipeline. Here's a quick 'How To'

Requisites

1. Add a npm task to install Newman before execution.

2. Set a display name (eg : 'Install Newman').

3. Set custom as command

4. As 'Command and arguments' set install newman -g

Execution

Configure this task as per your requirements. (see here and here for options)

Report

Test report can be integrated in Team Services.

To do so :

• Select at least junit as a reporter option (others can be added).
• Optionaly specify path to export junit report.
• Add a 'Publish Test Result' task, to process generated Junit report. Specify format (JUnit) and path and to xml file.

Execution is now reported with test statistics.

Limitations

Following command line options are not supported:

• -x,--suppress-exit-code
• -color
• --ssl-client-passphrase
• None of the CLI option

Known issue(s)

• None

Learn More

The source to this extension is available. Feel free to take, fork, and extend.

View Notices for third party software included in this extension.

Minimum supported environments

• Azure DevOps Services
• Team Foundation Server

Contributors

We thank the following contributor(s) for this extension:

• sunmorgus
• sebcaps
• jeffpriz

Feedback

• Add a review
• Post an issue on Github
• Send us an email