Challenge 1: Manual or Automated? — Possible Solution ==================================================================== (a) Pasting a URL into a browser to check a fix just now — MANUAL. A person is deliberately doing this one time, right now, to answer a specific immediate question. Nothing about it is saved or repeated automatically afterward. (b) A GitHub Actions workflow hitting an endpoint on every pull request — AUTOMATED. No human triggers each individual check — the same request/assertion runs identically, on a schedule (every PR), without anyone manually repeating the steps. This is exactly the kind of check this course's Chapter 4 (Newman CLI) and Chapter 9 (capstone) build toward. (c) Clicking "Send" in Postman while debugging live — MANUAL, even though it's happening inside the same tool (Postman) this course later uses for automation. What makes something manual or automated isn't the TOOL, it's whether a human is deliberately triggering and interpreting each individual run versus a saved script running unattended and repeatedly. Postman can be used either way — Chapter 4 covers running a whole Postman collection unattended via Newman, which turns the exact same requests automated.