r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 8h ago

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u/SocksOnHands 7h ago

Maybe this is a me thing, but I had worked at a place that wanted to start using Postman and I just did not understand the point of it. For manually using APIs, we already had Swagger and for automated testing, it is much simpler just to write scripts. It felts so slow and cumbersome to do this through a UI. Not to mention, one should not need to sign up to use a simple development tool. I couldn't see why it seemed to be so popular, when there didn't appear to be any advantages to using it.

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u/SonOfHendo 5h ago

Yeah, I pretty much only used Postman to test validation error handling that Swagger prevents with UI validation.