How to tag test in Postman

Question

I want to classified tests to run them for different purposes. As far as, I search I could not an option to tag some test and run test on demand. I also looked at Chaijs if it has such a feature, but could not be able to find a solution.

What I want to do is add some tag like the following:

@health_check
pm.test("Status code is 200", function () {
    pm.response.to.have.status(200);
});

@smoke
pm.test("Product should be correct", function () {
    var jsonData = pm.response.json();
    var product = pm.variables.get("PRODUCT");

    pm.expect(jsonData.meta.appId).to.eql(product);
});

and run it like as following or anyway achieve this:

$ newman run mycollection.json -tag smoke

Answer 1

That tag type option is not something that's ever been available in the app or in Newman.

You could use the --folder option on the CLI and organise your collections to include requests within those specific folders, that cover those scenarios.

For example:

$ newman run mycollection.json --folder healthCheck --folder smoke

Alternatively, you could use a global variable to act as a switch in the control if specific tests/groups of tests are run.

Wrapping the test in an if statement like this:

if(pm.globals.get('smoke_check') === "runCheck") {
    pm.test("Status code is 200", () => pm.response.to.have.status(200));
}

Then passing in a global variable in the cli using the --global-var flag.

$ newman run mycollection.json --global-var "smoke_check=runCheck"