Postman is a tool for API development that allows users to design, test, mock, document, monitor and publish APIs. It has native apps that are more full-featured than the Chrome extension and overcome restrictions of the Chrome platform. Postman provides integrated tools at every stage of API development including mock servers, documentation, testing, monitoring and publishing APIs. It also has professional features through paid plans like Postman Pro and Enterprise.

1. Accelerate Quality
With POSTMAN - Advance
Gaurav Kumar Shukla
QA Consultant

2. Agenda
● Postman Native App
● Key Elements In POSTMAN
● POSTMAN User Interface
● Parameterization with variables
● Dynamic Variables
● Level up your Postman Game!
○ Documentation
○ Mock Server
○ Monitoring
○ Publishing
● Why Postman Pro and Enterprise
● Demo

3. Stop Using Postman Chrome Extension.
● Postman Chrome extension has been deprecated.
● Google is planning to remove packaged and hosted Apps from Chrome.
● Chrome extension Limitations :
○ Performance Issues : Chrome extension had crashed with frequent switching.
○ No support for cookies management: User need to use separate interceptor.
○ Restricted headers: Extension has restrict the headers like origin, user-agent.
○ Redirect Options: Extension automatically redirects the request with 300 response code.
○ Restricted Menu Bar : Only chrome extension menu bar exist.
○ No console support: Extension doesn’t have any console, which restricts to view the network
request details for API calls.
“It's time to switch on Postman Native Apps”

4. Postman Native App:Why?
● The native apps cover all the features and functionality of the Chrome app and Chrome extension together, and more.
● The native apps run on Electron overcoming a lot of the restrictions of the Chrome platform.
● Features exclusive to the native app:
○ COOKIES: The native apps let you work with cookies directly. No Separate extension required.
○ BUILT-IN PROXY: The native apps come with a built-in proxy that you can use to capture network traffic.
○ RESTRICTED HEADERS: The latest version of the native apps let you send headers like Origin and User-
Agent. These are restricted in the Chrome app.
○ DON'T FOLLOW REDIRECTS OPTION: This option exists in the native apps to prevent requests that return a
300-series response from being automatically redirected. Previously, users needed to use the Interceptor
extension to do this in the Chrome app.
○ MENU BAR: The native apps are not restricted by the Chrome standards for the menu bar.
○ POSTMAN CONSOLE: The latest version of the native apps has a built-in console, which allows you to view the
network request details for API calls.

6. The Only Complete API Development Environment (ADE)

7. LET’S FAMILIAR WITH THE INTERFACE

8. DATA DRIVEN TESTING WITH POSTMAN VARIABLES
● Variables are symbolic names that represent the information you store in them. The information, the variable represents
can change, but the operations on the variable remain the same.
● Variables allow you to reuse values in multiple places. if you want to change the value, you can change the variable
once with the impact cascading through the rest of your code.
● You can use variables in the following form in the Postman user interface - `{{variableName}}`.
● Working with data files: Using data files is a powerful way to test the behavior of APIs with varying data in unexpected
circumstances.
○ Postman Support Two types of data files:
■ JSON
■ CSV

9. Variable Scopes

10. Built-InTools
● Integrated tools for every stage of API life cycle.
■ Design and Mock [Mock Services]
■ Debug [Test]
■ Test Automation [Collection Runner]
■ Documentation [View In Web]
■ API Monitoring [Collection in a monitor]
■ Publishing [Public API documentation]

12. API Documentation
● Postman users can use two different webviews while authoring documentation for their Postman Collections:
private and public.
○ Private API Documentation: Only the author can view private documentation unless the collection is shared
within a team workspace. In this private web view,
■ You’ll be able to see each request in the collection, their descriptions, and code snippets generated from
the environment and the language you’ve selected.
■ Private URL is only accessible to Postman users logged in with the appropriate permissions
○ Public API Documentation: Public documentation is accessible through a URL that Postman generates at the
time of publication. This link displays immediately, and can be found in your Postman Dashboard. If you’ve opted
to use a custom domain, you’ll find your published documentation link in the Postman Dashboard.

13. Mock Server
● Postman lets you create two types of mock servers: private and public.
○ Private Mock Server : Only Available for POSTMAN PRO and POSTMAN Enterprise users. If you create a
private mock server,
■ Users to add a Postman API key in the request header. x-api-key:<your postman API key>
■ users can share the underlying collection with the team or specific team members, and provide
permissions to edit or view.
■ If you are a paid user, your team members can use their Postman API keys to consume the mock. Team
members can use the mock if they have permissions to access the underlying collection.
○ Public Mock Server: Mock Servers are public by default,
■ Public mock servers are accessible to anyone.
■ When you share a public mock server, users don’t need to add a Postman API key.

14. MONITORING
● Postman monitoring lets you run a collection periodically to check for its performance and response.
● You can set up a monitor to run as frequently as 5 minutes to check if all the requests in your collection are up and
healthy.
● When you set up a monitor,
○ Postman servers will hit the endpoints in your collection according to the specified frequency.
○ You can also select a corresponding environment to use and store variables.
○ If you have written tests for your requests , the monitor would run these tests to validate the response and notify
you when a test fails.
○ You can configure how to receive the alerts from a wide number of integrations available.

15. Why Postman Pro and Postman Enterprize
● Postman Pro : Provides Some market leaders integrations.
■ Github
■ Slack
■ Pagerduty
■ DataDog [Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications]
■ DropBox [Dropbox is a file hosting service]
■ APImatic [A Developer Experience Platform for APIs]
■ Gitlab
■ Hipchat
■ Keen
■ Microsoft Flow
■ Microsoft Teams

16. Postman Enterprize
● Audit Logs
● Running Monitors from static Ip’s
● SSO Support [Single Sign On]
For More Details Visit Here : https://www.getpostman.com/pricing

17. DEMO

18. References
https://www.getpostman.com/docs/v6/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmR-dbzvRw

19. Thank You!!!!