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I have been tasked with determining why certain tests are failing in Postman's collection runner. I found this question helpful but it does not address the scope of my issue.

This post suggests I could be sending the request with invalid JSON, but I did not write these tests, so I am unsure of how to check that.

My collection runs 423 GET/POST tests:

  • 280 pass

  • 143 fail

100% of all GET tests pass, as well as some POST tests.

However, all tests that fail are POST tests. Of these:

  • Almost all of them get a 500 Internal Server Error

  • They do not log a Response Header or Response Body

So far, I have ensured the app server is listening on the correct ports, and I've restarted the server a few times. Beyond this I'm unsure of how to proceed; most of my experience is in Java desktop applications but I'm now tackling this web application.

What steps should I try next?

Umbrella_Programmer
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A 500 error could be almost anything, and in general you would need to look at server/app logs to figure out what happened. The error could have been thrown because of something unexpected/catastrophic or simply because the server (or rather the programmer/admin) didn't want to expose any more information.

With that said, I would also make sure that your POST request is being sent to an endpoint that is listening/expecting a POST and that the request is properly formatted.

M. Broz
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