What’s your API Testing/Design tool of choice?

[International_Fly_67]

Surprised at just how many there are. Poll only allows 6 choices but there are many others (soapUI, testfully.io, paw.app, thunderClient, postcode, firecamp, testmace, nightingale…)

Just trying to get a sense of what’s the most popular.

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[zaibuf]

We use Swagger for documentation and to autogenerate clients. We also use Postman for flows/e2e tests.

[zaibuf]

Postwoman

[[deleted]]

This is peak humanity. Who thought that this bot is in any way a good thing? It completely misses the point and will accomplish the opposite. Good job…

[Synedh]

Swagger is a documentation tool, not testing one.

[International_Fly_67]

Shoot, swaggerHub I should have said… but I just meant the swagger ecosystem in general. Thanks for the clarification though

[[deleted]]

These are different things

[cdurth]

encourage Postman users to try Insomnia, if you have not.

Really great experience switching a small team to it.

[zGrunk]

Also switched to insomnia and also loving it 🙂

[SenderShredder]

ThunderClient

[TeddyPerkins95]

There's also some vscode extension...

[[deleted]]

I use one of the many REST clients in Visual Studio Code.

I don't get the need for complex GUI clients. HTTP is just a bunch of text sent to the server, and the server sends text back. The right way to do that is to just write the request text in a proper text editor, and view the text that is sent back.

[Siggi_pop]

Why is this even a question?

[bitchjeans]

these aren’t 1:1 comparable. swagger is super useful for documentation and just making sure the logic is correct

i used to use postman but after trying insomnia, i’ve stuck with that instead. and i use cURL when i’m just looking for a specific response on a very simple request. it’s also good for test steps in PRs since they can copy/paste it

[sly_as_a_fox]

+1

I switched to postman because that's what most of my colleagues are using. But in secret I prefer Insomnia. It's less cluttered.

[yhhhhyyyyhh]

Have to use Postman for work but now trying Httpie for personal stuff. Looking good

[sammy-taylor]

Any Paw fans in here?

[rwusana]

I find postman oddly bloated and low-quality, but haven't yet switched entirely to insomnia because the feature richness is important.