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API Testing Tools in 2022

cloudytech147 on February 05, 2022

API is essential for the legitimate integrations, functionality, and performance of a software item. An error in the API integration and security c...
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Andrew Baisden •

Cool you should also add thunderclient.com/

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Alexandre Nédélec •

Interesting list. As far as I am concerned, my default tool is Rest Client (vs code extension). That way I can commit request files in my git repository and as they follow standard convention I am lock-in a specific tool. I have an article about rest client if somes are interested to know more about it: dev.to/techwatching/testing-your-a...

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Liyas Thomas •

We are building an open source {free} Postman alternative: Hoppscotch - API request builder for web.

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io (open-source alternative to Postman, Insomnia)

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Himanshu Khaitan •

I personally feel Postman is just awesome 🔥

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Ricardo •

I hear good things about insomnia.rest/

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Ashish Khare😎 •

Yeah, it's great and simple. It's very much like postman.

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W Ian Douglas •

I'm surprised Postman isn't at the top of the list considering they have >17M users

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Steve •

Nice list. I used Postman for one of my last projects. I also tried Thunderclient for VsCode as it's pretty lightweight.

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Nikolas •

what about collaboration during the API design and testing? which ones offer something like that?

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Anmol Kushwah •

You can try Sparrow for that It provides feature like team collaboration:

github.com/sparrowapp-dev/sparrow-app

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