kuroco-newman

kuroco-newman is an internal-use npm package to manage/run Postman collections at any repository easily.

Installation

npm i --save-dev github:diverta/kuroco-newman

Prerequisites

You need to follow the steps below at least to use kuroco-newman package.

1. Put Postman collection files under specific directory structure
2. Create kuroco-newman.config.json

Tutorial

See tutorial_ja.md (Japanese version only)

kuroco-newman cli

You can use kuroco-newman cli to initialize your repository and run/manage your collection files.

Initialization

npx kuroco-newman init

Run Postman collections

# Run all Postman collections configured in kuroco-newman.config.json
npx kuroco-newman run

# Run only specific Postman collection
npx kuroco-newman run -e path/to/your/environment_file -c path/to/your/collection_file

Reference

Directory structure

• kuroco-newman.config.json must exist in the root of your repository.
• Postman collection files must always be put under the specific directory structure.

/
|-- kuroco-newman.config.json
`-- {directory_to_put_testing_files}                    # Any directory name to put your postman files
    `-- {target_site}                                   # Any identifier for your testing target
        |-- collections                                 # Postman collections
        |   `-- {id}                                    # [Optional] Any identifier of your target collection (API id, API name, etc)
        |       |-- {category_name_1}                   # Any category name for your collections files (unit, integration, etc)
        |       |   `-- *.postman_collection.json
        |       `-- {category_name_2}                   # (You can make multiple categories if you need)
        |           `-- *.postman_collection.json
        |-- environments                                # Postman environments
        |   `-- *.postman_environment.json
        `-- fixtures                                    # Fixture files for test scripts
            `-- *.*

Example

/
|-- kuroco-newman.config.json
`-- tests
    `-- kuroco-test
        |-- collections
        |   `-- 1
        |       |-- unit
        |       |   `-- Kuroco-test-unit.postman_collection.json
        |       `-- integration
        |           |-- Kuroco-test-specs-scenario.postman_collection.json
        |           `-- Kuroco-test-specs-pattern.postman_collection.json
        |-- environments
        |   `-- Kuroco-test.postman_environment.json
        `-- fixtures
           　`-- diverta.png

kuroco-newman.config.json

{
  "baseDir": "path/to/base/directory",
  "report": {
    "outputDir": "path/to/output/report/files",
    "options": {
      "index": {},
      "htmlextra": {}
    }
  },
  "target": [
    {
      "name": "target_site",
      "environment": "file_name.postman_environment.json",
      "collections": [
        {
          "id": "id",
          "files": {
            "category_name": "*.json"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Configuration without id

Collection id can be omitted. In that case, the configuration should be as follows.

Directories

`-- collections
    |-- unit
    |   `-- Kuroco-test-unit.postman_collection.json
    `-- integration
        |-- Kuroco-test-specs-scenario.postman_collection.json
        `-- Kuroco-test-specs-pattern.postman_collection.json

kuroco-newman.config.json

"collections": [
  {
    "files": {
      "category_name": "*.json"
    }
  }
]