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It clearly shines at basic REST requests,
February 28, 2019

It clearly shines at basic REST requests,

Taylor Morgan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Postman

Postman is used by various departments who develop and maintain web applications and APIs. It provides an easy-to-use REST client that is also deeply customizable, allowing API endpoints to be tested and debugged with test requests and payloads.
  • Fine-tuned control over HTTP requests and various payloads.
  • Quick access to headers, responses, and debugging information.
  • Request grouping, history, and repeated request management.
  • The interface can be a little overwhelming and clunky, especially for newer users.
  • It is geared towards more complex situations, and the controls can be overkill for a simple request.
  • If you have a tendency to have dozens of browser tabs open, you will be overwhelmed with tabs in Postman as well.
  • Postman has enabled quick testing and debugging for existing API projects.
  • Postman speeds development but allowing various requests to be created, executed, and stored for future reference.
Postman is perfect for testing various HTTP requests with its quick and deep ability for manipulating the headers and payload. This makes it ideal for testing and debugging APIs and even simple web applications. Postman offers various payload types (raw text, JSON, form-data, etc.) and customizable HTTP headers. Requests are sorted into tabs, saved in collections, and recorded into a history -- all of which are helpful, but which can also quickly grow unwieldy if one isn't careful.

Postman is flexible enough that you can even use it for less typical requests (i.e. SOAP), but it clearly shines at basic REST requests and offers enough fine tuning to see what's happening "under the hood" of an HTTP exchange. (For instance, when authorization headers were being lost in a recent project, Postman allowed me to disable automatic following of 301 redirects, revealing an invisible but important step in the request.)

There is a wealth of advanced tools which I haven't even begun to explore, but individuals on other teams have used it for more automated situations. The vast majority of its users in our organization are using just the basics for simple requests.

Postman Feature Ratings

API Management
7.0
API monitoring and logging
7