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."The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"No coding required."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"The solution has helped us very well in testing endpoint URLs."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"In Postman, we have an option to directly import a call, make it a Postman collection, and execute it in a batch. This feature is very useful. It saves a lot of time. The manual effort is also reduced when we can just pick it in a Postman collection and then run and execute it to get the results."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests."
"Tests are per-step configurable with script capabilities and support for token-based authentication using variables. Configurable test frequency and integration with both Slack and PagerDuty for alerting our DevOps team are also important. General use of the dashboard by multiple team members is also valuable."
"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."
"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."
"We have the ability to populate environment variables using scripts. This allows us to keep the configuration mostly dynamic and avoid a lot of manual updates when something changes."
"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."
"It has a relatively simple user experience."
"It uses JavaScript which is easy."
"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 solution can be improved by providing detailed error logs including the line the error took place to make it easier to correct."
"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."
"Integration should be improved with our continuation system because we use Azure DevOps separately."
"UI testing needs to be added to the solution."
"The request encryption could be one thing on which they can work a little bit. If we don't want to expose our production data but we still want to test our APIs on the production data, there should be a way to do that. It is not only with Postman. I think no tool in the market is doing that right now."
"One area that could be better is collection management."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"I have display issues in my Windows that need to be fixed."
"We would like to have an improved ability to share a set of tests across different environments (e.g., dev, stage, and prod)."
"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."
"the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug."
"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)."
"File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios."
"Needs the ability to create code which runs before and after API tests."
"I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens."
"There are not many options for scalability."
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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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