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  How to run your postman (Newman) automation collection in a Continuous Integration environment like Azure DevOps build Pipeline? Postman Introduction: Postman is a tool that simplifies each step of building and testing APIs. If you've ever used it in your development or testing phase, you must already know what an incredible tool it is. It presents the possibility to automate your API tests and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline to make certain that any code changes won’t introduce any new regression issues in upper environments like QA, Stage, Production, etc. Newman Introduction: Newman is a tool, using which one can effortlessly run and test Postman Collections directly from the command line. Azure DevOps CI/CD Introduction: Azure DevOps by Microsoft Azure is one of the leading tools that automate CI/CD's process. Using continuous integration and continuous deployment with Azure DevOps, these pipelines are used to construct build-deploy-test workflows used mainly in c

 In Azure DevOps, if you don't want JUnit Test results and like to have a HTML Report (htmlextra) that newman provides which is very neat and comprehensive, go for this FREE extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MaciejMaciejewski.postman-report   This lets you create a task for publishing newman HTML Reports in your pipeline into Azure Storage(like shown below in Image 1). And then, embedded reports can be viewed as a tab in Build and Release result page (like shown below in Image 2). Plus, there is an option to download the reports from the same tab.