This is where Newman, Postman’s command line companion comes in. The next logical step is hooking up Postman with your build system. We won’t go into the specifics here but do check out this tutorial for more detail. Postman contains a full-featured testing sandbox that lets you write and execute Javascript based tests for your API. This is where Postman departs from just being a REST client in your arsenal. We believe that in the context of API development, this process can be made a lot easier. Teams tend to skip this part accruing a ton of technical debt in the process. In practice, writing tests, verifying whether they are working, setting up the testing environment and then eventually plugging them with the build system is hard. Nobody would disagree that having tests is good and we should be running them as often as possible. Writing tests and especially tests for APIs, can be a tedious process. While source control systems have made it trivial to set up shared repositories of code and view what people have been sharing, few teams are able to practice well the second part – verifying check-ins through an automated build process. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early. From the ThoughtWorks definition of Continuous Integration:Ĭontinuous Integration (CI) is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. Unless your development team is running on a six-month or an year-long cycle, you would be practicing Continuous Integration.
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