We performed a comparison between Postman and Runscope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Postman, F5, SmartBear and others in API Monitoring Software."The solution collects scenarios and allows for testing SOAP API, REST API and API automation at the same time."
"The solution has a great user interface and collection of features."
"What is most valuable for me is that we can create and share collections between the team members."
"We can also submit requests multiple times and it allows us to capture the response each time by using utility scripts."
"The solution is stable."
"Postman is useful for API testing."
"The interface and the different types of API methods you can use are the most valuable aspects of this solution."
"The solution provides visibility for PDF reports without needing to install plugins."
"We utilize modular tests based on environment variables. These have saved QA a lot of time when setting up our back-end automation."
"As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive."
"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."
"We have the ability to populate environment variables using scripts. This allows us to keep the configuration mostly dynamic and avoid a lot of manual updates when something changes."
"It uses JavaScript which is easy."
"The schedule is definitely the most valuable. Also, being able to check the JSON attribute values is helpful. We always check the attributes. Finally, the notifications are helpful as well."
"It has a relatively simple user experience."
"You can run it off the cloud and against different data centers. That's one of the plus points for most people for this product, as opposed to some other solutions."
"Integration should be improved with our continuation system because we use Azure DevOps separately."
"The reporting could be better. It should give you a detailed PDF report after you run a test."
"The performance needs to be improved."
"There needs to be more flexibility surrounding the testing of SOAP APIs."
"I live in Turkey, so for me, the value of dollar currency is high...Postman can change its pricing policy and decrease the prices for Turkey."
"I have recently noticed that, for some reason, I am not able to import collections in JSON. It is weird because I was able to do it before. When you create a new collection and documentation, in tests, you usually have to click Save. If you don't click Save, your collections don't sync with other devices, which is something I don't like. It is not clear for the users in a shared workspace, and I usually forget to click Save and end up losing all the collections that I created. I create a lot of routes, and clicking Save all the time isn't efficient. Instead of clicking Save all the time, there should be an option to save everything in one go."
"Postman does not have a check-in balance. Essentially what I mean by that is if there is something that is already configured on a particular device, it just overrides it without checking whether you really want to override it or not."
"Could be more user friendly."
"I would like to see easier integration and display of test results so that the data could be shared via a dashboard within our company. (Some integration is possible, provided you use one of the supported platforms)."
"If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time."
"The user interface requires a lot of clicking around."
"We definitely make use of historical test results, especially when tracking more difficult issues such as timeouts. Per our test frequency (15 minutes) we often need to go back further than the last 100 test runs. We are aware that results further back in time are available through the Runscope API, however, it would be great if the dashboard allowed easy access to a larger amount of historical data."
"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."
"File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios."
"the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug."
"I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens."
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Postman is ranked 1st in API Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Runscope is ranked 4th in API Monitoring Software. Postman is rated 8.2, while Runscope is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Runscope writes "Enabled us to set up automatic regression tests that cover everything we need to monitor". Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and NGINX API Gateway, whereas Runscope is most compared with .
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