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Postman alternatives? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I usually generate an API client in C#, and just use that. For example, and entire integration CRUD test for a user would just be something like:

var user = TestClient.CreateUser(1234, "Bob");
user.Id.ShouldBe(1234);
user.Name.ShouldBe("Bob");

var userThroughGet = TestClient.GetUser(1234);
userThroughGet.ShouldNotBeNull();

TestClient.EditUser(1234, "John");
userThroughGet = TestClient.GetUser(1234);
userThroughGet.Name.ShouldBe("John");

TestClient.DeleteUser(1234);
userThroughGet = TestClient.GetUser(1234);
userThroughGet.ShouldBeNull();

Trying to set up those kinda scenarios quickly with Postman was getting pretty tedious