Postman BDD+Newman -- ReferenceRrror in test-script - runtime:extenstions~request: request url is empty

1. Newman Version (can be found via newman -v): 3.8.3

2. OS details (type, version, and architecture): Windows 10

3. Are you using Newman as a library, or via the CLI? via CLI

4. Did you encounter this recently, or has this bug always been there: just tried the tool and got stucked

5. Expected behaviour: to execute the tests with success from cmd line as well, from Postman GUI it works fine. Note: I’m using Postman BDD

6. Command / script used to run Newman: newman run POC.postman_collection_23oct_1.json

7. Sample collection, and auxilliary files (minus the sensitive details):

8. Screenshots (if applicable):

Steps to reproduce the problem: I’m using Postman BDD for a POC on testing APIs on our project.

1. Wrote some simple tests and executed collection from GUI - worked fine
2. executed on cmd line with Newman - Fail

Note: I can not send the requests since it is sensitive data. What other info can I send to you?

Result:

POC - WS Test - WHK / 001 - SetUp └ PostManBDD GET □ POC - WS Test - WHK / 002 - Test ProductSummary for single product WS └ Check that is a succesfull response GET https://product…/summary [200 OK, 437B, 351ms] 2⠄ ReferenceError in test-script

└ Check response content GET https://product-…/summary [200 OK, 437B, 74ms] 3⠄ ReferenceError in test-script

└ Check error case - product_number text GET https://product-…t/summary [404 Not Found, 336B, 76ms] 4⠄ ReferenceError in test-script

└ Check error case - product_number not existent GET https://product-…/summary [404 Not Found, 336B, 71ms] 5⠄ ReferenceError in test-script

────────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ │ executed │ failed │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ iterations │ 1 │ 0 │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ requests │ 5 │ 1 │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ test-scripts │ 4 │ 4 │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ prerequest-scripts │ 0 │ 0 │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ assertions │ 0 │ 0 │ ├─────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┤ │ total run duration: 725ms │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ total data received: 380B (approx) │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ average response time: 114ms │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

failure detail

1. Error runtime:extenstions~request: request url is empty at request inside “POC - WS Test - WHK / 001 - SetUp / PostManBDD”

2. ReferenceError it is not defined at test-script inside “POC - WS Test - WHK / 002 - Test ProductSummary for single product WS / Check that is a succesfull response”

3. ReferenceError describe is not defined at test-script inside “POC - WS Test - WHK / 002 - Test ProductSummary for single product WS / Check response content”

4. ReferenceError it is not defined at test-script inside “POC - WS Test - WHK / 002 - Test ProductSummary for single product WS / Check error case - product_number text”

5. ReferenceError it is not defined at test-script inside “POC - WS Test - WHK / 002 - Test ProductSummary for single product WS / Check error case - product_number not existent”

[prakharjoshi]

@dcalina One possible reason is you might have set it once before and the collection run picks the globals environment from App so it was available there while you run the collection through App. You might be able to see postmanBDD as a global variable in your app. On the other hand in Newman, there was no global env named postmanBDD during a run.

[dcalina]

Thank you