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Joe Steinbring

Postman

A client for sending requests to an API and asserting on the responses, used to exercise by hand what Swagger describes on paper.

I used Postman heavily at UW-Milwaukee and at Bader Rutter for API development, automated collection testing, endpoint debugging, and mock servers. It is the fastest way I know to troubleshoot an interaction with a vendor SaaS product.

Articles written
3
Official website
postman.com
Age
14 years (since 2012)

Experience highlights

  • Build and organize request collections for testing REST APIs and webhooks.
  • Automate API validation workflows and verify payload contracts.
  • Troubleshoot request and response problems against vendor SaaS APIs.

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