# Using visual studio code to write tests **URL:** \ **Category:** Help Hub\ **Tags:** testing\ **Created:** [February 22, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257 "2019-02-22T14:34:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![salilbhole](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/salilbhole/32/1369_2.png) [@salilbhole](https://community.postman.com/u/salilbhole)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/1 "2019-02-22T14:34:01Z")
What postman java-script libraries I need to import to write my tests using visual studio code. Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![danny-dainton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/danny-dainton/32/29401_2.png) [@danny-dainton](https://community.postman.com/u/danny-dainton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/2 "2019-02-22T16:30:42Z")
Would you be able to provide more context? ---
**Author:** ![salilbhole](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/salilbhole/32/1369_2.png) [@salilbhole](https://community.postman.com/u/salilbhole)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/3 "2019-02-22T18:29:34Z")
Sure Danny, Rather than writing my javascript code in postman “Tests” tab, I want to write my initial code in VS code for my tests taking advantage of code completion (intellisense), e.g. when I type pm, I want to know what all the members of pm object, properties, methods etc. Once I am satisfied with the code then I can copy & paste it in the “Tests” tab to run. Hope that helps. Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![danny-dainton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/danny-dainton/32/29401_2.png) [@danny-dainton](https://community.postman.com/u/danny-dainton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/4 "2019-02-22T18:36:12Z")
I might be wrong but I just don’t think it’s going to work like that in VSCode - the `pm.*` API within the application only really has a handful of options available to you anyway. [https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/scripts/postman\_sandbox\_api\_reference/](https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/scripts/postman_sandbox_api_reference/) I’m very interested in your approach, if you can get something working in VSCode - I think having an auto complete function, on the `pm.*` API, within the application would help a lot with this but it’s just not there yet. Also, it might only save you a little bit of time as you would need to copy everything back into the application, to run the test and know if you have the syntax right or not. ---
**Author:** ![danny-dainton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/danny-dainton/32/29401_2.png) [@danny-dainton](https://community.postman.com/u/danny-dainton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/5 "2019-02-22T18:49:08Z")
In terms of VSCode - This looks interesting though: [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eridem.vscode-postman](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eridem.vscode-postman) Under the hood its just using Newman to run the collections but it’s still actually quite cool. ---
**Author:** ![salilbhole](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/salilbhole/32/1369_2.png) [@salilbhole](https://community.postman.com/u/salilbhole)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/6 "2019-02-22T19:02:00Z")
Yeah, that one is pretty cool, I downloaded that earlier. I found this but looks quite old, [https://www.npmjs.com/package/postman](https://www.npmjs.com/package/postman). Anyway thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![danny-dainton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/danny-dainton/32/29401_2.png) [@danny-dainton](https://community.postman.com/u/danny-dainton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-visual-studio-code-to-write-tests/4257/7 "2019-02-22T19:05:43Z")
Sorry I couldn’t assist you more 😔 I don’t believe that the package you referred to has anything to do with this Postman. That shares the same name but feels more that a message bus than a REST client.