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 solution provides visibility for PDF reports without needing to install plugins."
"We are using the automation and performance testing tools."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The user-interface is very good."
"We can test APIs. We know if they are functional or throwing any errors."
"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."
"It's user-friendly. Anybody can learn it within five to seven minutes."
"It allowed us to understand the working and performance of the APIs."
"We can receive an email and slack notifications if tests are failing/passing."
"It uses JavaScript which is easy."
"You can run it off the cloud and against different data centers. That's one of the plus points for most people for this product, as opposed to some other solutions."
"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."
"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."
"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."
"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."
"We have previously used Tosca which allowed us to verify information using authentications. It would be useful if this was also possible using Postman. In a future release, Postman should connect to DB."
"I would like that if you click on one of the fields you should be able to see the entire row of fields, names, and values."
"I would like to see improvements in the maintenance of the scripts and their collections. It is really painful that the user cannot drag and drop. It was also painful to create the standard suite of operations for the product. I am not sure if this is improved in the tool’s latest versions. The maintenance of the complex scenarios prompted us to use the solution only for unit testing. In the future, we may switch to the k6 framework."
"UI testing needs to be added to the solution."
"I have display issues in my Windows that need to be fixed."
"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."
"To get this email reporting function, we have to integrate Postman with Newman. If the two are not integrated, we won't be getting all these things in one group."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Needs the ability to create code which runs before and after API tests."
"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 initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work."
"One thing that can be improved is the logging. Sometimes, when we have an error, we don't know how to find more information about the problem that has happened. Sometimes, it just returns something like "that gateway." More information would be a way to improve it."
"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."
"The user interface requires a lot of clicking around."
"If triggering test bucket via trigger API, there is no option to see if the tests which were triggered passed or failed."
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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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