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Measure your Postman Collection’s quality with the Postman API and Spectral rules

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Date Published
Author
David Espi Hernandez
Word Count
1,116
Company Posts That Month
9
Language
English
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Summary

Postman Collections serve as a collaborative tool in the API design, development, testing, and documentation phases, facilitating user feedback and enhancing the API development process. To optimize their utility, collections should include comprehensive documentation, examples of responses, variable definitions, authentication details, and tests. The blog post introduces a tool, available on GitHub, that uses the Postman API, Spectral CLI, and jq to assess the quality of a Postman Collection by applying a set of predefined rules that can be customized to suit specific needs. The tool retrieves the collection in JSON format, applies Spectral rules to validate quality, and outputs any errors, allowing for integration into CI/CD workflows to maintain high-quality API collections. Users are encouraged to adapt these rules and automate notifications to ensure collections consistently meet desired standards.

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