Is there room for another API Testing Tool?
Currently, there are several API Testing tools out there, such as
- https://www.soapui.org/
- https://www.postman.com/
- https://insomnia.rest/
- https://github.com/uw-labs/bloomrpc
While they all work (some are even pretty good, such as Insomnia), they all lack some features or have a confusing UI. I personally think there is room for yet another tool which supports API Testing for all "common API protocols" (gRPC, REST, WebSockets etc.)
One thing I am not sure about is the monetization... Insomnia and Postman generate income via a sync/team feature and I couldn't come up with another monetization idea.
What do you think?
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I am pretty unhappy with what is available. I use PAW on Mac but PAW does not really have a shareability story.
My main client uses Postman though I absolutely hate the Postman UI.
What I would really like is a tool with a better UI than Postman that allowed for managing a Github repository of tests, or even manages tests in just a subdirectory of a large project's repository. Ideally in JSON, but maybe even using a domain-specific language. Ideally something that allows test to be created in the tool and run from other languages.
For monetization I could see offering a SaaS that allow automated running of tests on an ongoing basis. My main client has a problem that their internally-used API keeps going down when their infrastructure has a hiccup, or that they make a change and it breaks some part of the API.
I would love to have a tool that their QA people could use to manually test with but when done with manual testing they are 90% done with preparing for automated testing of that API. And then the paid service would run those tests directly from the Github repo and do it continuously on a schedule we set on a per test basis, with ability to configure tests in groups.
Finally it would need to both communicate problem via email, text, Slack etc. but also support submit concerns to enterprise logging and monitoring systems. This particular client uses VictorOps for that: https://victorops.com/
Very helpful points, thank you very much!
There’s plenty of room for another tool, I even think a tool just like postman with intellisense auto complete. I would pay a monthly for that.
Thanks for your feedback. What kind of auto complete would you like in a tool such as postman?
like regular ide intellisense for javascript
What would be the usp of your product? Why would i choose it over postman? (Btw i use postman almost every day)
gRPC, REST, SOAP, WebSockets all in one tool, good import (and "import-updates") support
there's always room for better