Postman background introduction
When users develop or debug network programs or web page B / S mode programs, they need some methods to track web page requests. Users can use some network monitoring tools such as the famous Firebug and other web debugging tools. The webpage debugging tool introduced to you today can not only debug simple css, html, script and other simple webpage basic information, it can also send almost all types of HTTP requests.
Postman related information
- Official and download address https://www.postman.com/downloads/
- Official documentation https://www.postman.com/docs/
- Community and support https://www.postman.com/community/
Postman version selection
- postman has the following versions
- chrome plugin version
- native version
Note: The native version has good scalability, it is recommended to use, support windows, macos, and linux, please choose according to the system you use
Postman download and install
- Open according to the official link given above
- Choose according to your own computer system
- Note, if it is a windows system, please note that your system is 32-bit or 64-bit when downloading, according to your computer download
- Basically no need to set, all the way to next
Basic use of Postman
- Open postman, after downloading, the postman icon will appear on the desktop, just double-click to open
- After entering postman, we can make basic settings for postman
- Update postman
- Click settings, select update, if there is a new version can be updated
- Below is the workspace of postman
- new: New [You can create a new request or collection]
- import: import information saved before
- runnner: run data
- history: historical data previously requested
- collections: the collection information of the request created before [generally, when testing, the interfaces of the same class or the same module will be put into the same collection for easy management]
- GET: request method, you can choose
- send: send
- save: save
- params: request parameters
- headers: request header configuration information
- body: When using post requests, you need to use
- Tests: You can add breakpoints
