We performed a comparison between Postman and Runscope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Postman, F5, SmartBear and others in API Monitoring Software."It is a scalable solution."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests."
"The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. Postman can be used as an extension in Google Chrome for those who do not wish to install it directly. Deployment took an hour and a half."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
"We can also submit requests multiple times and it allows us to capture the response each time by using utility scripts."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is easy to use and user-friendly."
"It is nice to have different workspaces. You have your personal workspace, and then you have a team workspace. In general, I like its UI. It is quite cool."
"When it's a problem on our side, the server is down, or there is a lack of memory, the first thing to break is the API, because the calls can't be processed. So we know exactly at that moment because we receive notifications, and we can take action. It doesn't only notify us of the type problem, but it also links it to our servers."
"It is a relatively reliable tool for running big amounts of API tests, which you can schedule to run periodically, as the product is very good."
"The schedule is definitely the most valuable. Also, being able to check the JSON attribute values is helpful. We always check the attributes. Finally, the notifications are helpful as well."
"We utilize modular tests based on environment variables. These have saved QA a lot of time when setting up our back-end automation."
"As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive."
"Valuable features include: Being able to add tests as sub-tests in a parent test for regression testing; notifications for tests that pass/fail; being able to customize expected results with assertions; being able to set tests to run daily."
"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."
"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."
"I was not even aware that it was possible to automate tasks in Postman...Some features related to the automation of tasks need to be added to the solution."
"It should be able to check the records and compare them to the regression testing more on the automation side."
"If we have a certain build on one machine it won't work with another build even if we are using the same URL. It would give us a connection refuse. So developing environment compatibility would make it better."
"We'd like to see videos or user-friendly reference documentation to help us figure out the solution or troubleshoot issues on our own."
"If they could implement auto-validations and assertions from SoapUI, that would be a very good feature."
"I would like to see advanced automation in reference to Postman."
"I would like to have a code snippet where I can write a code and for the responses of the endpoints to be validated using my custom business conditions."
"I live in Turkey, so for me, the value of dollar currency is high...Postman can change its pricing policy and decrease the prices for Turkey."
"The initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work."
"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."
"The user interface requires a lot of clicking around."
"I would like to see easier integration and display of test results so that the data could be shared via a dashboard within our company. (Some integration is possible, provided you use one of the supported platforms)."
"Reliability. I would like to see more money invested in disaster recovery testing of the application. The product should be hosted across several AWS regions so if there are issues with an EC2 instance in a particular region, the whole application won't be affected. Once or twice a year there are issues with AWS that causes the reliability of the application to suffer."
"Navigation can be a little tricky when changing run environments and switching between test run results and editing the tests. It would be nice if you could switch the environment for all tests in a Bucket to run, rather than having to change each test environment."
"We definitely make use of historical test results, especially when tracking more difficult issues such as timeouts. Per our test frequency (15 minutes) we often need to go back further than the last 100 test runs. We are aware that results further back in time are available through the Runscope API, however, it would be great if the dashboard allowed easy access to a larger amount of historical data."
"Currently, we can only schedule to the nearest five minutes, one hour, two hours, etc. If we could set up the exact time that we want it to run, that would be good because sometimes we have one service that crosses another service."
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Postman is ranked 1st in API Monitoring Software with 52 reviews while Runscope is ranked 4th in API Monitoring Software. Postman is rated 8.2, while Runscope is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Runscope writes "Enabled us to set up automatic regression tests that cover everything we need to monitor". Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and NGINX API Gateway, whereas Runscope is most compared with .
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