We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Test Workbench and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Postman, Tricentis, Apache and others in API Testing Tools."Reporting is pretty good. Its interface is also good. I'm overall pretty happy with the functionality and use of IBM Rational Test Workbench."
"This solution provides for API testing, functional UI testing, performance testing, and service virtualization."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Postman is the verification and testing of APIs."
"Postman helps to write pre-request scripts and make a collection out of each request. You don’t have to spend time writing or copying the requests. The solution lets you integrate multiple environments and their features. Either the tool’s pro or premium version lets you do the merge and pull request for the Git directly."
"It helps me to test APIs independently. It also supports hosting."
"This solution offers a free version."
"Postman is open-source and free to use."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The user-interface is very good."
"There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation."
"It should have more interfaces. In terms of interfaces or protocols, what you can do with Rational is far limited as compared to other products out there. What it does, it does great, but it only gives you limited types of protocols. It supports between 8 to 15 types of protocols, whereas other test tools give you 20 to 30 types of protocols with which you can do testing and convert to script. It records Javascript-based scripts, and you got to know a little bit of Java to basically be able to edit them, but the level of editing you got to do is very low. I like that, but the ability to edit the script is not as good as Parasoft or LoadRunner, which have C-Script."
"The solution has some user interface difficulties when conducting environment collections."
"One area that could be better is collection management."
"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."
"There needs to be more flexibility surrounding the testing of SOAP APIs."
"UI testing needs to be added to the solution."
"Should have a more improved easy-to-use interface."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"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."
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IBM Rational Test Workbench is ranked 11th in API Testing Tools while Postman is ranked 1st in API Testing Tools with 52 reviews. IBM Rational Test Workbench is rated 7.6, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Test Workbench writes "Good reporting and interface, but supports limited types of protocols and requires low-level script editing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". IBM Rational Test Workbench is most compared with HCL OneTest, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Apigee.
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