Postman Initial Setup

Raghvendra Jyothi - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Project Management at Capgemini

My understanding is that the solution is straightforward to set up. There are some challenges, sometimes, around configuration, specifically with REST API, however, it's not too difficult.

I'm not sure how many people are needed to deploy and maintain eh solution. We have a team of five or six, and we can handle it internally. 

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Riya Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Coforge Growth Agency

It's quite easy to set up. You simply download it and then install it and start using it. 

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SJ
Director at BOSACH Technologies & Consulting Pvt. Ltd

The initial setup is easy and I rate Postman a ten out of ten for its initial setup. The deployment of the solution doesn't take much time. It just requires a few hours.

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RP
Test Automation Consultant at Emirates NBD

It's straightforward for me. I've been using Postman for a while. You can just directly download Postman from the web and use the version on your desktop. It takes minutes to download the EXE file and install that. It takes around 10 to 15 minutes.

Its updates are not very frequent. It's once every six months or one year. There are not many failures in Postman.

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Michael Kalogerou - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Delivery Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution's initial setup process is straightforward. You must know about the required environment and security credentials for implementation. It needs two test automation engineers and one business analyst to execute and takes a few hours to complete.

I rate the process as an eight.

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RolandCastelino - PeerSpot reviewer
QA lead at Bank of Montreal

The initial setup is straightforward. You only need to download the solution from the internet and run it. The most complex part of the setup is setting up a proxy if it is required.

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AbhishekSingh14 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Setting up Postman is straightforward and takes about an hour. 

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Arunkumar Anand - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was straightforward with a little complexity.

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RishiBhargava - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Director at Axeno

The initial setup was straightforward and was carried out in-house.

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GK
Product Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It is pretty straightforward. They also have a WebUI. If you don't want to use it on your device, you can go and use WebUI.

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MustafaKocaadam - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Engineer at Techno Study

I rate the product's initial setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is a very easy setup.

The product's installation phase is very easy.

The solution is not deployed on a cloud model.

The solution can be deployed in six or seven weeks.

The product's deployment process revolves around controlling back-end activities while also keeping control over the part of writing output codes, after which I could classify some tests on it. The deployment process of the product was easy.

I was alone in the project for deployment, as it was not so complicated for one person.

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AP
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward. You just have to install the application, there is no complexity in that. Deployment takes a few minutes and then you build up your URI and start using it. In total, it takes less than half an hour. 

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Dirk Willekens - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at D.W. Soft bvba

The product is easy to implement. You need some knowledge to implement the product. As I was more or less familiar with SoapUI, I could very easily pick up the way Postman works.

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Ferran T. - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at Sosteca

The solution’s initial setup is easy. The maintenance is easy as well because we are not doing all the possible accents and because we are not doing anything to maintain.

The solution is deployed on the public cloud and on-premises in our organization. But I use it more in the cloud.

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Muzammil Riaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. 

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SN
Associate Test Engineer at OSI Consulting, Inc.

The initial setup is quite easy because installation automatically sets up collections. 

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PR
Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Setting up Postman is pretty simple. You just download it and run the installer. It only takes one person to install and you can do it in around 10 minutes.

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HareshKumar Thanneeru - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Test Engineer at Tietoevry

Initial setup is easy. Sometimes we get the proxy errors, but when we go to the settings and disable the proxy things, it's pretty simple. Comparatively, SoapUI is easier for me.

Maybe some people who don't have a licensed version of Postman or ReadyAPI might feel that it's easier to automate with Postman, but I'm not sure about that because I haven't done it.

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Kumara Swamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer in Test at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

If a file is in Windows, it is very easy to deploy the product. We can do configurations easily and handle test scripts well. It's all very straightforward.

However, other operating systems may be more difficult. The process varies depending on if you are using Windows, Unbuntu, or Linux, for example. 

Depending on the scripting, the deployment hardly takes 30 seconds to one minute. It'll check for the E2E level in the checkpoints, and how to trigger in the checkpoints.

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Hammad Janjua - PeerSpot reviewer
SQA Engineer at SOFIT Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd

The product's initial setup phase was easy and not difficult.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

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Mahesh Doshi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is very easy to set up. There were no issues. 

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Amiya Acharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

You complete some setup processes for an application and have to provide the URL. It is not a complex setup. With a bit of understanding of API, it can be set up. I rate the setup an eight out of ten. There is a dedicated framework team for maintenance comprising about six people. Maintenance is required every three months.

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NS
Automation Testing Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is simple. It's not overly complex. We have a desktop version and downloaded it to laptops.

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Faiz Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Specialist / Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is very straightforward.

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RK
Senior Salesforce Consultant

The solution's initial setup process is pretty simple.

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Sai Subramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at Innoppl

The initial setup of Postman is easy.

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HV
Test lead at Percik Consulting

The tool's setup is straightforward and took less than an hour to complete. 

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MohammadHussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is straightforward because we are IT professionals. 

On a scale from one to five, I would give the initial setup a 5.

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Nakul Kundaliya - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Developer at Mayora Infotech

The initial setup of Postman is straightforward.

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Aarti Sajan - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Tester at HSBC Software Development

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.

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Shahid Manzoor - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Assurance Supervisor at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward and only takes a few minutes. 

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SJ
Engineer 2 at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It's a very straightforward solution to install. I'd rate the process five out of five in terms of ease of deployment. 

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SV
Technical Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Postman setup was straightforward. It was not complex

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AE
QA Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup of Postman was straightforward.

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Amrutha Shekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you have knowledge of JavaScript, the initial setup is easy and straightforward. If not, it may take some time to learn about JavaScript before starting the implementation. 

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LM
IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup of Postman is of a middle level of difficulty, it is not difficult or easy. However, it depends on the skills of the person doing it, it is easy for me.

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ShariqAhmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Trainee - Data Engineering at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It was straightforward to install. We just downloaded it and used it as a tool for testing our APIs. We had a back-end developer and two mobile developers utilizing this solution.

Its usage depends on how many APIs we have to test. So we had a complete collection of APIs that we tested, and once we tested, everything was ready.

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HP
Technical Product Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup of Postman is straightforward. Setup is easy and you install it on your PC just like any other application from the browser.

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Fatih Mehmet HARMANCI - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Testing Services Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is not difficult and you can find everything on the internet. I rate setup an eight out of ten. 

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SK
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The setup was really easy and was accomplished by configuring our email. 

Different projects automatically sync to the solution upon login so we are able to import files and configure API setups for other team members. 

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GK
QA Lead at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. It takes a maximum of five to 10 minutes.

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Sai Bhargav - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup was complex because we had limited first-time user experience. I rate the setup process a six out of ten.

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KS
Director Web Technologies at Thapovan Info Systems Inc.

The initial setup of this solution is simple and pretty much straightforward.

I can just open up a tab and use it.

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SR
Sr Testing Consultant at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was very straightforward. It was easy to install, because it is a very lightweight application.

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MS
Lead Test Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product's setup is easy. 

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NS
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is very straightforward. We just have to download and do the setup. We already have the collection so we just have to share it with the teams and import the project. Furthermore, we didn't create the project and we had to do everything manually before creating the variables and still the installation was not complex.

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ED
QA Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's not exactly complex, but I wouldn't say it's straightforward either.

The deployment process was very quick; I believe it took roughly one week to get it all set up. Still, not all test cases were set up within that time period. 

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MD
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The deployment depends on what you are going to use it for. It can be simple and it can be complex at the same time.

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