How to choose the Right Postman Alternative for your Team?

Like a coin has two sides, Postman also has two sides!

Postman is an amazing platform if the use case is API Development and Management. But when it comes to API testing, it is no more than a low-hanging fruit.

Now, if API testing is also your primary use case for Postman, then I assume you’ve already seen a fair share of challenges. And looking for an “alternative to Postman” was your last resort.

You’ve come to the right place. This blog is going to act like a guide in letting you invest in the right tool now, without leaving any scope of “alternatives”.

A Quick Recap of Challenges that made you search for a “Postman alternative”

There are so many problems related to Postman, take reddit for example—it’s filled with queries related to “Looking for Postman alternatives”. The thread is huge, but it all depends on the needs and goals you’re looking forward to achieve.

Before we get straight to the considerations, let’s quickly skim through the challenges you as devs, testers, or SDETs might be facing in your routine work:

1. Lot of manual work involved—simply because it is a code-first solution, requiring you to write tests cases for all scenarios figured out by your team

   
   

2. since all the tests are handwritten in Postman, so even a little change in your code needs to be updated all across the dependent services test case — continuous maintenance

   
   

3. you can’t use Postman locally—and that’s one major drawback it currently has. Any company doing some serious business would want their confidential information to be stored on someone else’s cloud

   
   

4. preparing test data is also a setback—when teams are aiming to achieve agility at all costs, they’re looking for tools which reduces their manual work and get things done quickly without much of intervention

   
   

5. manually setting up assertions and validations is a big no-no for anyone looking for automation, the chances of human-error get increased this way

   
   

6. and the list goes on…

   
   

Points to Consider while selecting the right alternative to Postman

Now that we all are at the same page, FRUSTATED with all these challenges put forward by Postman. Let’s take a deep breath and start looking for the “right” alternative to Postman. Here’s a list of considerations you need to take a look at before your final calling:

1. You need to carefully evaluate the specific needs of your API testing and development workflow to determine if you require features like automated testing, collaboration capabilities, CI/CD integration, or advanced reporting.

   
   

2. Consider the ease of use and learning curve associated with the alternative tool.

   
   

3. Look for a tool that offers a user-friendly interface.

   
   

4. Compatibility with various API protocols like HTTP HTTP 1.1, HTTP 2 like GraphQL, gRPC etc., is also extremely crucial for seamless integration into your existing tech stack.

   
   

5. Consider how well the tool scales with the growth of your project, both in terms of performance and the ability to manage larger or more complex API collections.

   
   

6. Evaluate the security features of the alternative tool, especially if your API testing involves sensitive data. Look for options that offer on-prem model and not the cloud-based one.

Helping you out with your search to find the best Postman alternative

Before we get started and present you the best alternative to Postman. Here’s a video to quickly help you out with your decision.

Just summarizing the things HyperTest can potentially do for you:

1. HyperTest is initialized on every microservice with its SDK.

   • It then generates the trace of every incoming call i.e. request, response, outgoing call and outbound response.

   • When done for all services, it generates an observability chart that reports all upstream-downstream pairs i.e. relationship between all services.

     
     

2. HyperTest context propagation provides traces that spans multiple microservices and helps developers debug the root cause of any failure in a single view

   
   

3. HyperTest is capable of supporting all the commonly used web protocols like HTTP HTTP 1.1, HTTP 2 LIKE GraphQL, gRPC etc. Also supports all non-http calls like databases, queues like Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ and all pub/sub systems

   • HTTP, HTTP1.1, HTTP 2

   • SQL / noSQL databases

   • Message Queues and Pub/Sub Systems

   • Web sockets

     
     

4. HyperTest generates a code coverage report after every run. This highlights clearly how it tests code paths for both the data and integration layer along with the core logic

   
   

5. HyperTest smartly mocks external systems like databases, queues, downstream or 3rd party APIs that your code interacts with. It also smartly auto-refreshes these mocks as dependencies change their behavior keeping tests non-flaky, deterministic, trustworthy and consistent

   
   

6. HyperTest eliminates the need to create or manage test data by teams. As it uses the data from the mocks it creates by recording the flows and replaying them under the replay mode, feeding all the real data stored by HTs SDK in a mocked format.

   
   
   
   

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