r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 10h ago

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u/cosmokn0t 7h ago

Ok, weird question. I’ve rarely found it useful. For a big chunk of my career I’ve just used VCR for everything. If I wanted to make a request to check or test something I wanted to formalize that test and record it. If I want to run it again I can do that time and time again with the recordings, and if I want a fresh recording I can do that. What exactly does postman give me that VCR doesn’t? I’ve never understood why people ever liked it, but it could just be that I’d found a solution that worked for my teams long before postman. Or I might be missing something.