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Newman

The Newman command-line app can run the tests created by the Postman app. This makes running Postman tests really simple, and it also makes it easy to include these tests in command-line-driven build scripts.

Checking for Newman

You can check if you already have Newman installed by typing the following at the command line:

newman -v

If it’s installed, you’ll get a response showing the version number of your release of Newman. On my machine I get this:

4.5.0

Installing Newman

You can install the Newman test runner using the npm utility you installed earlier (see ​NodeJS and npm​). To do that, just type the following at the command line:

npm -g install newman

That’s all you need to do. You can check to see if it was properly installed ...