Overview: Tools for building and mocking API's. Swagger has good tooling and my original preferred choice. APIM - Great tooling, part of Azure and easy to replace mocks as you go along with the live implementation. Postman is offering a great set of functionality to rival Swagger and APIM. This post looks at Postman's new functionality around building API's.
Postman API Builder:
Not only a test rig, it now offers the ability to build API's and mock:
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I like Swagger tooling, I have done a few projects find APIM fantastic for building API's quickly. Postman historically was merely my test rig but looking at the functionality, Postman API Builder is a great option for designing and building API's. Postman is a good tool for building into CI/CD pipelines to validate API's.
Postman API Builder:
Not only a test rig, it now offers the ability to build API's and mock:
- Mock - so you can test supports key and OAuth authentication
- Assert Tests - You can specify asserts in postman
- Test suite - generate collections/Collection Runner - Allows a set of related tests to run sequentially.
]- Document the API
- Monitor
- Version control for changes e.g. GITHub
- API Versions supported
- Note: Free plan has all of this, limited on the number of API's but all the features are on the free plan. The main notation formats are support including: Open API specification (OAS) & GraphQL
I like Swagger tooling, I have done a few projects find APIM fantastic for building API's quickly. Postman historically was merely my test rig but looking at the functionality, Postman API Builder is a great option for designing and building API's. Postman is a good tool for building into CI/CD pipelines to validate API's.
Few more assert examples:
Postman offers a service to monitor API's using your postman collections, these can be triggered using Curl so can build into DevOps, Power Automated scheduled flows,....
sentry.io looks good as an alternative option
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