Item: Postman
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Postman

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our current business in my organization, we are moving from a legacy system to a new system with the latest cloud technology, and since everything is new, we are testing from scratch. Here, postman plays an important role in API testing. Managing collection through Postman is so easy that it makes testing comfortable.

Pros and Cons

Pros

API Testing and Debugging.
Environment management.
Variable management.
Automated Testing with Collections and Test Script.

Cons

I feel that good version control is missing.

Return on Investment

Enhanced Productivity in shift left environment.

Usability

1. Friendly user friendly - when I started using Postman, I was a beginner to the API world, and it gave me a friendly view to begin its usage 2. Postman offers many features, including API testing, monitoring, documentation, and mock servers 3. Environment variables simplify testing across multiple environments (dev, prod) without repetitive configuration.

Alternatives Considered

Swagger Open Source and supported by SmartBear

Postman is also being used for API development, whereas other tools do not support development but documentation. Postman is used for real-time testing: Send requests and analyze responses directly without needing additional tools or platforms. Postman also has built-in JavaScript-based scripting, which can be used to automate workflows.

Key Insights

Do you think Postman delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Postman's feature set?

Yes

Did Postman live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Postman go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Postman again?

Yes

Other Software Used

BrowserStack, Appium

Likelihood to Recommend

So, one of the significant and essential use cases for API is to test RESTful APIs during development; this gives early feedback in agile development without more test setups. It also supports writing test scripts in JavaScript to validate response data (status codes, headers, body). Mocking is also provided by API, which is important in agile development.

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Postman - Complete tool for API testing.