Insomnia is a REST API Client and Design tool. Insomnia Inso is a command-line tool for enabling automated testing and API management. Functional API testing is a main component. Some people don't like how much ram or disk space it uses. Let's review some top Insomnia API Client alternatives in these categories: Installation Type and User …
API Testing
RapidAPI Testing GitHub Action now in the GitHub Marketplace
GitHub Actions need no introduction — it is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that empowers developers to automate all of their software workflows. Over time, it has enabled developers to build amazing things, and significantly improved developers’ productivity. What’s great is that anyone can discover and utilize over 8,500 actions in the GitHub …
Mock API
What is a Mock API? With APIs, to mock is to copy or imitate. Mock APIs provide predefined API responses for client applications. For example, think of an application that has a database. We may want to create a mock API for that database that returns example data representations. Therefore, we can take a handful of common data objects from the …
A Brief Introduction to CI/CD and Emerging Trends in Software Development
Do you recall how software was shipped in floppies, CDs, and DVDs in the typical brick-and-mortar fashion? Software delivery models have undergone enormous changes in the last few decades. The Internet eased the distribution of software binaries by facilitating direct download. However, cloud computing has radically transformed the software …
Top 5 Best Postman Alternatives for API Testing
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. They also support Automated Testing. You can write test scripts for your Postman API requests in JavaScript. But their pricing and documentation are very complex. This creates a need to look at some Postman alternatives for API Testing. It is difficult to fit all the Postman pricing …
How To Automate API Testing (with RapidAPI)
Introduction An API (Application Programming Interface) is a computing interface that allows you to communicate with other applications (software intermediaries). It defines the kind of calls or requests that can be made, how you make them, the data formats that should be used, and the conventions to follow, to name but just a few. The purpose of …
How to Test API Endpoints
What is RapidAPI Testing? RapidAPI Testing is a cloud-based API testing tool that allows you to create comprehensive API tests (as well as monitor APIs). With RapidAPI testing, you can test all of your REST APIs. There is also support for SOAP and GraphQL APIs. This API testing tool integrates with a user's internal or external APIs that may …
Top 4 Best API Fortress Alternatives
Introduction to API Fortress API Fortress is a modern API testing platform for agile teams and DevOps. It is part of SauceLab’s testing offering and is an enterprise-grade platform for API testing, monitoring, and performance analysis. SauceLabs is a leader in testing solutions with over 3 billion tests run on the SauceLab Continuous Testing …
Best API Monitoring Tools
What Are Monitoring Tools? Monitoring tools allow us to keep an eye on our systems, applications, and micro-services. However, monitoring tools exist in many types of industries and professions. We want to keep an eye on our API's availability the same way that a farmer wants to keep an eye on the weather. Since we can't consistently watch our …
Top 5 Best SoapUI Alternatives
SoapUI is an open-source API testing tool billed as the "World's Most Popular". It has a graphical interface that helps to build tests easily. But every feature described in the SoapUI documentation is like a teaser. Premium features get attention while free features pale in comparison. This is used to get people to pay for ReadyAPI (the paid …
Top 4 Apigee Alternatives for API Management
Introduction to Apigee Apigee is a full-stack API management platform from Google. Apigee enables enterprises to build, deploy, and scale API programs with ease, along with robust features covering the entire API life cycle and API governance capabilities. Apigee includes an API management suite along with monitoring and testing modules. …
How to Test an API with Ruby
If you've read some of our articles on this site, you might've noticed some (if not all) skip writing tests for the code we publish. This is only because there's so much you can write in an article before it turns into an essay. It's important to note that writing tests for your code is extremely important. When you're just playing around with …
Top 4 Katalon Alternatives
Introduction to Katalon Katalon has a complete suite of solutions targeted for web, mobile, and desktop application testing. The Katalon Studio is their flagship test automation IDE. It also supports API testing for ensuring robust testing for functional as well as several non-functional test scenarios. The API testing solution provided by …
API Testing Automation with RapidAPI
Introduction The process of testing software during development helps find problems early. But running the tests manually can easily become tedious as a project grows in size. Testing automation makes development more enjoyable for developers. We can forget about running tests and focus on development. This is Part 2 of a series about API …
Intro To API Testing With RapidAPI
Introduction Are you involved in the development of an application that uses APIs to access and control the flow of data? Do you run your integration tests manually? Do you run integration tests? You do have formal tests, right? This tutorial will introduce you to API testing with RapidAPI's new Testing suite of tools. You will learn …