What Is Postman? Should You Be Using It?

Postman is used by 500,000+ companies including 98% of fortune 500 companies. But, what is Postman and why is it so popular? This article will cover:

• What is Postman
• What type of requests Postman can handle
• What are the Postman response codes
• Other Cool Features of Postman
• Should you be using Postman

What Is Postman?

Postman is a tool used for testing API calls. It is a Google Chrome application that interacts with HTTP APIs. It has a nice GUI, or interface, for creating requests and reading responses. These requests and also be saved as collections and shared with other team members. This allows for more efficient and less tedious work from developers and QA engineers. Anyone can download a free version of Postman and start using it today.

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What type of requests Postman can handle?

The Postman application can handle, Get, Post, Put, Patch, and Delete requests for APIs.

• GET requests retrieve data from an API.