Put on your aprons people – it’s recipe time. Today we’ll be cooking up a delicious batch of automated API tests. For this recipe, you’ll need a buttery Postman base, a squeeze from a random user data API, and a CI system to bake it all in (I used Azure Devops). The result is a set of golden-brown integration tests that use realistic fake data and run in the cloud on a schedule of your choosing. Sound like the sort of recipe you’d like to master? Read on… Continue reading
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Postman vs Insomnia – why not both?
Just over a year ago I was emphatically singing the praises of Postman. Before that, I’d been using Fiddler to make calls to REST APIs and man, was that a drag! Recently I’ve had a similar experience when I discovered an alternative REST client called Insomnia. Unlike last time, however, I won’t be ditching the previous flavour of the month… Read on to discover why (for the time being at least) they both get a spot on my desktop.
Using Postman as a data pump for testing (instead of Fiddler)
In my current role, I find myself working a lot with our sales handling pipeline. It takes an order through our API and starts a set of processing pipelines for things like fulfilment, accounting, and our CRM system. Because the main entry point of the pipeline is an API, I used to find myself using Fiddler to make fake calls to our API in the testing environment.