Difference between Postman Collections and Environments
Basis |
Collections |
Environments |
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Definition |
Collections are mainly used to group the API requests. |
Environments are used to store the variables that we can use in other multiple requests. |
Contents |
The collection consists of API requests and the related metadata information. |
Environments consist of variables, and also the key-value pairs in case of parametrization. |
Dependency |
Collections are independent of specific Environments. |
Relies on environments to apply the variable values. |
Scope |
This has a collection-level organization |
This has global or environment-specific variable storage. |
Difference between Postman Collections and Environments.
While Web Application development, for testing different APIs, all the developers prefer the Postman tool which consists of various features for API development. In this article, we will see the difference between Collections and Environments, and also we will see the steps to create Collections and Environments.
Table of Content
- Postman Collections
- Postman Environments
- Difference between Postman Collections and Environments