Newman the cli Companion for Postman

** Not an official task **

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.

Report - HTML Extra

1. Add a npm task to install Newman-reporter-htmlextra before execution.

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

3. Set custom as command

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

5. Select "htmlextra" from the reports list

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.

If you use a Postman Enterprise account workspace check out this task to use in a pipeline. Here's the post explaining it from the tasks author.

Minimum supported environments

• Azure DevOps Services
• Team Foundation Server

Contributors

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

• sunmorgus
• sebcaps
• jeffpriz
• esbenbach
• Scott-Emberson

Feedback

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