I would like to hear if any of you are using different app for API testing than Postman.

I’m not telling that Postman is bad, but maybe there’s all that I should check out. Recently I tried RapidApi and even tho the app is kinda cool I missed few options and went back to Postman for now.

  • KogasaEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m saying that Postman is bad. maybe not in terms of functionality, but damn if it doesn’t run like a slug on my work computer, which is just fine handling a dozen Visual Studio and Rider instances. It seems like it works perfectly for about 5 minutes and then goes to crap.

    So yeah, I’d be interested in an alternative too. I only really use it for basic functionality (creating, sharing, and running collections of requests with configurable parameters).

      • KogasaEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I was vaguely aware that this tool existed, but never considered the source code aspect. That’ll be great for integration testing a volatile API. Thanks for the suggestion.

    • BuckshotEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same for me, I’ll notice my computer is a bit loud, realise I forgot to close postman and it’s just sitting there, doing nothing, minimised, and my 12 core CPU is sat at 20%.

      I close postman, within seconds the fans spin down.

      I’ve tried a few alternatives but the rest of the team use postman and we’ve got shared collections and pretty extensive pre-request scripts and nothing else I’ve tried really fits the bill.

      • KogasaEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There is always the web version of postman. It can make localhost calls if you install their desktop agent. Might have better memory management somehow? I dunno.