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I was introduced to it on a specific project where 3rd party integrations were unreliable. We could save and share specific requests and responses, and compare them over time. We built up a sizable library of what is expected output from each API.
It enabled us to be like: “hey dickheads you broke your API again.” Essentially doing unit testing on their behalf. Technically not our job, but our customers didn’t care whether it was our fault or 3rd party’s fault. I was expected to fix problems, even if it wasn’t my problem.
At some point Postman got really weird and confusing. You had to make an account, and it synced all your stuff to the cloud (offline only was no longer an option), and various other enshittification behaviours. At that time we switched to another tool, but I don’t remember the name.
I was introduced to it on a specific project where 3rd party integrations were unreliable. We could save and share specific requests and responses, and compare them over time. We built up a sizable library of what is expected output from each API.
It enabled us to be like: “hey dickheads you broke your API again.” Essentially doing unit testing on their behalf. Technically not our job, but our customers didn’t care whether it was our fault or 3rd party’s fault. I was expected to fix problems, even if it wasn’t my problem.
At some point Postman got really weird and confusing. You had to make an account, and it synced all your stuff to the cloud (offline only was no longer an option), and various other enshittification behaviours. At that time we switched to another tool, but I don’t remember the name.