Tim Haselaars joins Office Hours to talk about how to convert a Postman collection to a k6 load test, the advantages of Postman, and the benefits of reusing automation testing scripts for performance. Tim is a Product Manager at Selligent Marketing Cloud.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

02:49 Tim's use case for k6

08:05 Quick tour of Postman

14:55 Postman is not designed for load testing

20:07 Demo of postman-to-k6

48:50 How to use Portman to generate tests from an OpenAPI spec

Postman-to-k6 conversion: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@apideck/postman-to-k6
What is Portman: https://blog.apideck.com/announcing-portman
The Postman collection that Tim was using in this video: https://www.postman.com/collections/7ae7e5768450374002a9

Contact Nicole:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com
GitHub: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven

Contact Tim:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timhaselaars
GitHub: https://github.com/thim81

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/k6io/k6