Postman Environments
Postman Environments is the core feature of the Postman API Tool which is used to manage the sets of variables and the values associated with it. The cironements mainly enable the configuration of dynamic elements in API requests, which provides a way to perform testing and development.
Features:
- Variables: Postman Environment allows the reuse of variables that are dynamically placed in the API requests. This variable can be headers, URLs, etc.
- Scope: The variables in the Postman environments can have various scopes like global or can be specific which is related to the request or the folder.
- Inheritance: Postman environments can be organized in a hierarchical manner, which allows the environments to be inherited from the parent-to-child environments.
- Dynamic Data: Postman Environments has support for dynamic data generation using the scripts.
Steps to Create Postman Environments
Step 1: First, create the Workspace and navigate to the Environment Tab. On the right side, there is a label as No Environment. Right to the label, there is a small button, click on it.
Step 2: After clicking on the button, you will see an Add button in the Environment section.
Step 3: An interface will be opened, where we need to give the name of the environment. We will give the name as GFG-Environement.
Step 4: Now, as the environment is created, we can define various variables and use them for our API development.
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