Why CLI execution enables automation in Postman - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to run a Postman collection from the command line.

Postman

newman run [1]

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Acollection.json

Bpostman

Crun

Dtest

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Forgetting to specify the collection file name.

Using 'postman' or 'test' instead of the collection file.

The newman run command requires the collection file name to execute the tests.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to add an environment file in the Newman CLI command.

Postman

newman run collection.json --environment [1]

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Aenv.json

Bconfig.json

Cenv

Denvironment

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using the option name instead of the file name.

Omitting the file extension.

The environment file is specified by its filename, usually ending with .json.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the Newman CLI command to export the report.

Postman

newman run collection.json --reporters [1] --reporter-html-export report.html

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Acli

Bjson

Chtml

Dxml

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using a reporter that does not support HTML export.

Misspelling the reporter name.

The html reporter is needed to export an HTML report file.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to run a collection with a delay between requests and save the output to a file.

Postman

newman run collection.json --delay-request [1] --reporters cli,json --reporter-json-export [2]

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A1000

Boutput.json

C500

Dreport.html

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using a delay value that is too small or missing units.

Saving the report to a file with the wrong extension.

The delay is set in milliseconds (1000 ms = 1 second), and the JSON report is saved to output.json.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to run a collection with a specific environment, set iteration count, and export an HTML report.

Postman

newman run [1] --environment [2] --iteration-count [3] --reporters html --reporter-html-export report.html

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Acollection.json

Benv.json

C5

D10

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Mixing up collection and environment file names.

Using iteration counts that are not numbers.

The collection file is collection.json, environment file is env.json, and the iteration count is set to 5.