Postman (software)
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Postman is an application allowing to test APIs, created in 2012 by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane[1] in Bangalore, in order to solve the API tests sharing problematic. At first, it was a plugin of Google Chrome, then a rich client, and finally a thin client. It's now used by more than 500,000 companies worldwide and its headquarter is in San Francisco[2][3].
Features
Postman regroups API tests in collections, to mutualize their URLs and authentications. Moreover, we find[4][5][6]:
- A free version with workspace sharing to three users maximum.
- Variables depending on the selected environment.
- A version control system of tests and environments.
- Access rights per roles (user or editor).
- Benchmarks.
- Importation and exportation in JSON.
- Tests exportation to various HTTP clients formats (cURL, PHP, Python, Java, Node.js...).
- Authentication by JSON Web Token (with possible OAuth2 configuration).
- REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC[7]
- A rich client.
- A thin client allowing to upload files to send to APIs.
- A debugging console which keeps inn memory previous requests and responses calls.
- Scripts to automatize tests.
References
- ^ "Postman". crunchbase.com.
- ^ "About Postman". postman.com.
- ^ "Postman Launches New API Platform, Redefines API Management for the API-First World". the AI Journal. 2021.
- ^ "Features". postman.com.
- ^ "OUTIL DE TEST: tester vos API avec Postman".
- ^ "Utilisation de Postman avec l'API Microsoft Graph".
- ^ https://www.programmableweb.com/news/postman-announces-support-grpc-beta/brief/2022/01/17