Postman Valuable Features
The version control is great. It can detect IP addresses really well.
It has a helpful API network.
The scalability is good.
It has been stable.
View full review »It allows all the request methods like GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, COPY, OPTIONS, LINK, UNLINK, and many more.
It allows all types of authentication requests like API Key, JWT bearer, Basic OAuth, OAuth 2.0, Bearer token, and many more.
It allows us to set the environment variables as per our different environments, like QA1, QA2, STAGE, DEV, PERF, and UAT.
It allows you to write the pre-request script that runs prior to any API call.
It allows us to save requests in a collection and share the collection with the team.
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Sajan JOSE
Director at BOSACH Technologies & Consulting Pvt. Ltd
Postman is useful for API testing. It also allows me to have multiple workspaces to share with my developers. I've just started using the mock servers and defining the flows, but that will take time.
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Postman
April 2024
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RALPH BRUNO PAULSAMY
Test Automation Consultant at Emirates NBD
In Postman, we have an option to directly import a call, make it a Postman collection, and execute it in a batch. This feature is very useful. It saves a lot of time. The manual effort is also reduced when we can just pick it in a Postman collection and then run and execute it to get the results.
The solution's most valuable feature is code-based API testing. The technicians have complete control over the business logic code in the test tool.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that JavaScript can be included as tests. That makes it easier to build an end-to-end API suite and it can be automated.
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reviewer2123535
Senior Automated Tester & Test Manager & AnalystSenior at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Postman helps to write pre-request scripts and make a collection out of each request. You don’t have to spend time writing or copying the requests. The solution lets you integrate multiple environments and their features. Either the tool’s pro or premium version lets you do the merge and pull request for the Git directly.
Azure was really painful. Azure detected and exported collection files that were different every time. If your request had a unique ID, then it was really painful. The integration with Postman was really helpful. You will be able to see normal one-line changes. When we integrated Swagger definitions in Postman, the developers were able to see changes and differences when they update API descriptions.
View full review »Postman lets you create, manage, and validate a suite of tests. It has several features to help you organize your test suite. You can also automate stuff with a lot of validations and assertions. Postman supports GraphQL, and you can do various kinds of calls.
View full review »The environment variables are a valuable feature because I can easily switch them and see all the developments in different cycles and stages. I can deploy it locally and QA everything in different environments.
I can copy the cURL request from the browser when browsing any website, copy the network tab from the browser and import it to Postman instead of rewriting everything, which comes in handy when debugging. If I'm working with a complete browser-deployed app, I can open a specific URL and see the recursion.
Postman helps me recreate our client environment so I can send different parameters and get that authentication information. Postman helps me simulate the API code from a fictitious client application so that I can check the API behavior. It gives you a good ecosystem, especially when you have a multi-discipline team that is scattered. It's a great product, easy to use, and people like it.
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reviewer1711431
Product Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for REST API testing. Feature-wise, it is pretty lightweight. It is pretty fast, and we don't have to do a lot of things. We can just simply go and post our endpoint, and it gives different kinds of authorizations. We usually use authentication 2.0, which is the most common industry practice. So, it has the support for authorization through 2.0.
It gives the flexibility to add headers, and it also gives the flexibility to build your payload at run time. If you want to do automation testing, you can just build your payloads at run time by supplying some parameters as variables.
It gives us good flexibility, and it is pretty easy to use. Even entry-level developers can quickly test their APIs. They don't have to rely on the QA testers or the specific QA resources to look at various use cases.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution are that it is easy to use and user-friendly. I can use Postman with simple Java codes, along with some secret codes. With Postman, I can create some complex test suites. With Postman, I can get some statistical reports, making its use so much fun for me.
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AbhijitPatil
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The solution is simple to use and you can easily store your projects. We mainly use Postman for our manual validation, but you can also schedule the automated validation. It offers multiple scenarios for a single API that you can run whenever needed. It offers a validation kind of functionality and the execution report of scripts. How many passed and how many failed. There's no manual intervention required, you click on the run button and that's it. The dashboards are good and the solution is user-friendly. The solution gives you the capability to run your use cases without manual intervention.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution are drafting requests, pushing the standard, and receiving responses. The tool's basic operational stuff is valuable.
The automation testing capability is something that I haven't used. In the past, I have used SoapUI to automate tasks, but I haven't tried it in Postman. I was not even aware that it was possible to automate tasks in Postman.
We are exploring code generation and how it works. We also like the test functionalities and snippets that we can use directly.
Moreover, the tool is simple and easy.
The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests.
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Sai Nyayapathi
Associate Test Engineer at OSI Consulting, Inc.
The solution provides visibility for PDF reports without needing to install plugins.
Other solutions like JMeter require plugins which is not ideal.
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Reviewer0111278
Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Postman allows you to incorporate and export the test cases we create. It enables me to share the test cases with my colleagues, so I don't have to copy them into an Excel sheet. Postman lets me export the dataset and share it with my team. They can use my test case for their testing.
It lists all the tests I have done, so I don't have to report them separately. With SoapUI, I can't do that. So every time I run a test case in SoapUI, I have to note in an Excel sheet the data, response times, etc. Postman sets the data free. It records the calls, responses, and everything else I need. So I can create a report and then go back and see what testing happened in the past month.
I have used some parameterization from a global variable, so that was working fine for me. It's easy to see different versions of responses. There's also a possibility for automation.
View full review »The output has been very good.
There are lots of good features.
Its initial setup is easy, depending on the operating system.
It is stable and reliable.
The product is not expensive, although there is also the option for open-source, so it can be free to use.
View full review »Postman has a lot of additional features like the ones offered by SwaggerHub. Postman is a bit more complicated compared to SwaggerHub since you have to insert bearer tokens all the time and set everything from the start. I mainly use SwaggerHub as it is easy for me. I always get back to SwaggerHub from Postman.
I'm using Postman to only push the scripts into the ACI, and that is a very limited use of Postman that we do right now.
I'm sure it might have other usages. That said, we have not explored other features beyond that at this point in time.
The initial setup is easy.
The solution is stable.
It is very user-friendly and has a nice UI.
View full review »The UI is good. It's appealing and free, and everyone can use it.
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reviewer2148840
Automation Testing Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution offers automation execution. You can do automation very quickly. We can access the variables. The environment setup is over there, and we can utilize it.
We can execute validations.
We can get reports very fast. The generation allows us to share those with end users and stakeholders.
We can access the solution quickly via a SSO.
It can scale well.
It is stable and does not lag.
The initial setup is easy.
View full review »It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows. Postman is a great solution and resource for those who are new to technical platforms in terms of API development and testing. Postman is an open source solution and so is an affordable resource for those wanting to learn.
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RahulKumar11
Senior Salesforce Consultant
The solution's most valuable features are straightforward UI and the ability to identify specific errors.
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HenrikVester
Test lead at Percik Consulting
The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing.
View full review »I like that it is very easy to use. I also like the automation feature.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Postman is the verification and testing of APIs.
View full review »Postman uses the DRY framework of JavaScript and that framework is easy and a good way to put assertions on responses.
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reviewer1576428
Engineer 2 at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Environment variable setup, pre-request script, tests, and monitors are most helpful.
The initial setup is simple.
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reviewer1675566
Technical Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable aspect of Postman is its ease of use. If a new client comes to our organization, it is very easy to ask him or her to install Postman, then get the URL, and then provide them with the fields for mandate refills or whatever field is applicable. We can ask them to get the JSON. We can even create validations and assertions. Postman can also be integrated with another tool called Newman.
Postman also has strong reporting features that allow us to create reports and then send these to the stakeholders. We use regularly scheduled reports. Every day at 10:00 a.m. our time, a report will be generated and sent to the stakeholders. We do a regression daily, and everybody gets the report also. It's a very user-friendly tool. Anybody can learn it. In my case, what I do is create an input Excel sheet when I give all the values. It takes the values from the Excel sheet. In the pipeline, we have something called YAML script Baron.
The automation tool requires a little work. You have to spend some time initially, but after that, you don't have to worry about it. For a given set of test cases, I create automated test cases and then add them to this particular regression suite, so that everything will run. If somebody asks me to run a regression tool, I can easily show them the results. It's all in the report, and they can click on it to see the input value that I've given.
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Ahmed Etman
QA Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have enjoyed using parameters and setting parameters while powering directly.
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reviewer1944924
IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Postman is the large libraries.
View full review »The best thing about Postman is it was very easy to use, and we could test APIs and get immediate results. In addition, we could share all our APIs with our other developers securely.
The solution collects scenarios and allows for testing SOAP API, REST API and API automation at the same time.
The solution's integration is useful for Jenkins or other tools.
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reviewer1992327
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very easy to create and manage different environments for testing. We can plug in different URLs and variables to test in a local environment before going to production.
The solution has a great user interface and collection of features.
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Asya Kundush
Product Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is nice to have different workspaces. You have your personal workspace, and then you have a team workspace. In general, I like its UI. It is quite cool.
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Girish Khileganvi
QA Lead at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Among the valuable features are
- data-driven automation
- response validation
- testing of the performance of APIs.
We can also submit requests multiple times and it allows us to capture the response each time by using utility scripts.
View full review »The API testing features are valuable.
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Kumara Subramanian
Director Web Technologies at Thapovan Info Systems Inc.
The most valuable feature of this solution is Collections. It perfectly suits a microservice factor.
The workspace is very useful. You can save configurations in their cloud so that you can access them from home, or at the office because you log in to the same account. You don't have to recreate them.
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SrTestin3f7b
Sr Testing Consultant at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- It is easy to use.
- It's free.
- It's user-friendly. Anybody can learn it within five to seven minutes.
- We are using the automation and performance testing tools.
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leadengi2180490
Lead Test Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It helps me to test APIs independently. It also supports hosting.
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reviewer1271004
Programmer Analyst at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
This is an easy solution to manage.
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reviewer1369950
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated. Secondly, I like the validation feature which is required for our automation testing. This way we can see that our test case passed. I think we could add some more validation but we need to do more research on that. For example, how can we play with it and find the response code and the other statuses? We need to do more research on how we can validate the exact response and the code, and how we get the response messages.
We prefer Postman as it is the most usable solution. It's really accessible. We also use SoapUI for API testing. But we prefer Postman, based on the reviews, based on our research, and how easily the solutions are available if we get stuck somewhere.
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Elvis Duric
QA Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The user-interface is very good.
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reviewer1270920
Software QA Test Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
What is most valuable for me is that we can create and share collections between the team members.
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MichaelDu Preez
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The interface and the different types of API methods you can use are the most valuable aspects of this solution.
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Postman
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Postman. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.