1 Introduction
postman is a powerful tool for debugging web clients, postman to provide users with a powerful Web API & HTTP request debugging. postman can send any type of HTTP request (GET, HEAD, POST, PUT ..), comes with any number of parameters + headers, it is a very useful debugging tool.
2, the software features
Support various types of requests: get, post, put, patch, delete, etc.
Support online data storage, data can be migrated through the account
Easily support the request header and set the parameters of the request
Support different authentication mechanisms, including Basic Auth, Digest Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, etc.
Automatically in response to the data is HTML, JSON and XML syntax highlighting, comprising
3, the software features
(1) to simulate various HTTPrequests
From the usual GET, POST to a RESTful PUT, DELETE ... and so on. You can even send files, send additional header.
(2) Collection Function (test set)
By classification collection, we can classify a good API test software has to offer. And you can also Import Collection Share or out, so that everyone inside the team you set up shared Collection.
Response finishing (3) humane
In general, when using other tools to test the contents of response are usually raw text, but if it is JSON, JSON is stuffed into a whole line. This can cause reading obstacles, and Postman can automatically format beautify for response content. JSON, XML or HTML format will be organized into we can read
(4) Built-in scripting language test
Support the preparation of test scripts, you can quickly check the results of the request and returns the results
(5) to set environment variables
Postman can be freely set variables and Environment, in general we edit request, check response, there is always the need to re-enter certain characters, such as url, allow us to set a variable to hold the values. And the variable stored in different environments.
4, download and install
Download: https://www.postman.com/downloads/
The installation is complete
