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Postman Intro to Collections

• Collection in Postman means a group of API requests that are already saved in the Postman and can be arranged into folders. Any number of folders can be created inside a collection.
• Putting similar requests into folders and collections helps the client in better organization and documentation of their requests.
• All the APIs requests can be stored and saved within a collection, and these collections can be shared amongst the team in the Postman workspace.

Advantages of creating collections

• Easy APIs import and export
  A collection can be imported or exported. Thus it can save time for transferring the requests.
• Request categorization
  Requests can be grouped into folders and collections for easy access.
• Passing data among requests
  Scripts can be used to pass data between API requests.
• Running collections/folders.
  You can run individual requests or folder or collection as a whole in the Postman.
• API documentation
  Postman provides you an option to add a name and description to your request, folder, and collections.
• Building Test suits
  Test scripts can be added to requests, and integration test suites can be built.
• Time-saving
  Setting any variable for collections will automatically apply the same to the folders generated under the collection and requests; thus, it saves time.

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