Postman Alternatives for API Testing and Monitoring

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Postman

Some engineers turn to Postman for API testing and monitoring needs. However, Postman is a costly and limited solution. QA, DevOps and other engineers may find it lacks capabilities that can answer their needs. In this blog post, we provide 12 Postman alternatives built for the enterprise.

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Insomnia REST

Insomnia is a user-friendly tool for API development and testing. Insomnia allows creating and sending HTTP and REST requests, like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and more. Users can view API responses, including status codes, headers, and body. This enables understanding how the application handles different response scenarios, for efficient debugging.

#API Tools #API #Developer Tools 129 social mentions

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soapUI

SoapUI is a popular open-source and commercial API testing tool (the commercial is called ReadyAPI), due to its powerful capabilities, flexibility and user-friendly platform. It’s particularly effective for testing SOAP, REST and GraphQL APIs. SoapUI allows inputting the WSDL or endpoint URL, configuring the requests with headers, parameters, or body content and sending the requests for testing purposes. The tool also supports capabilities like automation, mock services, variables, and more.

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Swagger UI

Swagger UI is a commonly used interactive visualization tool for RESTful web services, used for documenting, designing, and testing APIs. Swagger UI reads the OpenAPI specification document and generates an interactive documentation website. This web-based UI allows users to visualize and interact with the API’s resources without having any of the implementation logic in place. Visualized resources include the API endpoints, their request methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.), and the structure of request and response payloads. As a result, users can send actual requests directly to the API and understand the API's behavior in real-time.

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JMeter

For API testing, JMeter allows configuring API endpoint details into the test plan. For example, the URL, method (GET, POST, etc.), parameters, headers, and body data if needed. When the test is executed, JMeter sends requests to the API and captures the response. Users can monitor this in real-time and analyze the results.

#Development #Monitoring Tools #Website Testing 52 social mentions

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Testsigma

TestSigma is a test automation platform that allows users to write tests in simple, natural language. This makes it accessible to a wider range of users, not just those with coding skills. CI/CD integration allows for continuous testing and collaboration. For API testing, TestSigma allows for real-time API validation across a wide range of API testing types, like functional and load.

#Automated Testing #Test Automation #Software Testing 20 social mentions

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HTTPie

HTTPie is a command-line HTTP client, widely appreciated for its user-friendly and human-readable syntax. It's designed as a modern alternative to curl and wget, offering a more intuitive way to interact with HTTP servers, web services, and RESTful APIs.

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Karate

Karate Labs is a tool known for its versatility in test automation, particularly for APIs, web services, and UI testing. It stands out for its simplicity in writing tests, even for non-programmers, due to its Gherkin-based DSL. For API testing, Karate Labs allows users to test both SOAP and REST APIs. It can send requests, receive responses, and validate the response data.

#Website Testing #Browser Testing #Automated Testing 11 social mentions

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Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch, previously known as Postwoman, is an open-source API request builder. This tool is highly valued by developers for its user-friendliness and versatility for handling various API requests. These include REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket. One of its standout features is the ability to test APIs directly in the browser, eliminating the need for additional software or extensive setup. Hoppscotch also supports sharing API requests.

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Tricentis

Tricentis offers robust API testing and monitoring capabilities, designed to validate the functionality, reliability, performance, and security of APIs. Tricentis covers both SOAP and REST protocols and allows developers and testers to automate their API tests, run them at scale, and integrate them into their end-to-end testing strategies. Tricentis is considered a solution that is easy to master, for both technical and non-technical team members.

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SmartBear

SmartBear allows for automated API testing and monitoring capabilities through ReadyAPI and alertsite. The tool supports complex testing scenarios, including load and security testing and automation, and integrates with CI/CD tools. For monitoring, SmartBear provides real-time insights into API performance and availability.

#Testing #Automated Testing #API Tools 2 social mentions

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IBM API Connect

IBM API Connect enables companies to create, secure, and manage APIs. Users can test both REST and SOAP APIs, by simulating API behavior in various scenarios, ensuring that they function correctly under different conditions. For monitoring, IBM API Connect provides real-time analytics and operational monitoring tools, extending to security capabilities as well.

#API Tools #APIs #Web Service Automation

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Blazemeter

BlazeMeter’s API tests are comprehensive and high-quality, ranging from initial API quality checks to end-to-end testing. API tests are validated under varied real-world scenarios and complex workflows using diverse data inputs, thanks to BlazeMeter’s data-driven approach. This functionality includes checking for specific status codes, HTTP headers, and JSON or XML properties, or creating custom validation rules using a built-in JavaScript script engine​​.

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