Postman's Developer Advocate Lead, Joyce Lin, presented a 3-hour workshop walking through tons of Postman features, including: Collections Environments Workspaces Variables Scripts Tests And more advanced features

1. Galaxy tour workshop
Joyce Lin
Developer Advocate Lead, Postman
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San Francisco

2. Joyce Lin
Developer Advocate Lead, Postman
Postman is an API Development Environment
(ADE) used by more than 10 million people.
For many teams, Postman is an everyday tool that
helps people work with APIs more efficiently.
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3. Postman app
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Postman API
mock servers
converters
documentation
monitors runtime
open-source projects
Newman
CLI
Postman sandbox
API Network
templates
collection runner collaboration
sessions
environments
variables
Workspaces
proxies
Interceptor
integrations
CI/CD
automation
testing
version control
JSON
authentication
Other
Postman stuff

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Postman
as a Platform

6. Pre-requisites
Download Postman app
Sign in to Postman
account
ShipEngine API sandbox
key
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7. The Mission
2:15-3:45 Prepare for launch
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:15 Blastoff
5:15-6:15 Networking Q&A
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8. Who has?
Used Postman
Written a test
Run multiple requests
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9. HANDS ON
Prepare for Launch: Part 1
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Orientation
• Request builder / Response viewer
• Collections, folders, and workspaces
• Build (vs. Browse)

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Sending an
HTTP request
• Request builder / Response viewer
• Variables
• Productivity
• Header presets, bulk edit
• Auth and inheritance
• Console
• Visualizer
• Code generation
API Network: ShipEngine Walkthrough

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Writing
a test
• Test snippets
• Assertions
• Chai.js
• pm.*

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Creating
a collection
• Organization
• Conditional workflows
• Collaboration
• Advanced capabilities
• Documentation
• Test suites
• Mock servers

14. Prepare for
launch - recap
Requests
Collections
Variables
Tests
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15. Prepare for
launch -
Resources
API Network
Chai.js
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16. HANDS ON
Prepare for Launch: Part 2
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17. Advanced Scripts and Tests
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Advanced scripts
and tests
• Postman sandbox
• Conditional logic
• `postman.setNextRequest()`
• Execution
• Collection-, folder-, request-level
Intro to writing tests - with examples

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Execution
order

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Execution
order

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Collection
Runner
• Configuration options
• Looping through a data file
• Run results and history
Extract data to chain requests

22. VARIABLES
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Variables
• Keep code DRY
• Configuration
• Handle secrets
• Enable passing data

24. Environment
• For server config
• Security
• Can decouple from collection

25. Data
variables
@petuniaGray Working with data files: Ramen

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Considering variables
• Choosing variables
• Setting and Getting variables (in text areas
vs. scripting areas)
• Variable persistence

27. Moar variables
• Dynamic
• Session
Dynamic variables in Mock Servers

28. Prepare for
launch - recap
Advanced scripts and
tests
Running a collection
More about variables
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29. Prepare for
launch - resources
Intro to writing tests
Extract data to chain
requests
Postman sandbox docs
Working with data files:
ramen
Dynamic variables in mock
servers
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30. BREAK
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31. HANDS ON
Blastoff
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Automation
• Collection Runner
• For local development and exploration
• Shared history of collection runs in a
team workspace

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Automation
• Newman
• From CLI
• For CI/CD
• As a library

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Automation
• Monitors
• From Postman cloud
• Pre-built integrations for alerting and
and resolution

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Documentation
• For developer experience and on
boarding
• Markdown
• Descriptions for ollection, folder,
request, params
• Screenshots

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Documentation
• For discovery
• Privately as workspaces
• Publicly with Postman API Network and
templates

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Workspaces
• Organization
• Personal
• Team
• Private (Enterprise)
• Collaboration
• Roles and permissions

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Other collab
• RBAC
• Versioning
• Forking and merging
• Global variables
• History of requests and
collection runs

39. Blastoff - recap
Automation
Documentation
Collaboration
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40. Blastoff -
resources
Postman API Docs and
collection
Postman Echo
ShipEngine docs
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41. WHO WANTS SWAG?!
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42. OTHER NEW FEATURES
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43. Maintain your
API specifications.
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44. APIs!!!
@petuniaGray Cosmos

45. An easier way
to GraphQL.
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46. GraphQL
@petuniaGray Working with GraphQL

47. Intercept your
cookies.
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48. Interceptor
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49. Finer control for
generating code.
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50. CodeGen
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51. Powerful
debugging
with the console.
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52. Console
@petuniaGray How to use the Postman console

53. Blastoff -
resources
Cosmos
Working with GraphQL
How to use the Postman
console
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54. Final thoughts
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55. @petuniaGray
Postman
as a Platform

56. Additional Resources
• Launchpad - in app
• Community-contributed templates - https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/
postman_for_publishers/postman_templates/add_templates
• Community forum - https://community.getpostman.com/
• Product Roadmap - https://trello.com/b/4N7PnHAz/postman-roadmap-for-
developers
• Better Practices - https://medium.com/better-practices
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57. Side missions
Mock servers
Faker
API specifications
CDC testing for
microservices
Versioning
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58. Thank you
getpostman.com
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