Every company developing a product should have tests in place. Just like it’s important to have tests in place, it also matters how we run these tests. An increasing number of such companies are resorting to testing automation to ship out a bug-free product faster.

In this blog, we will attempt to draw a comparison between Postman online and HyperTest to try and understand which is more powerful when it comes to catching API failures.

The Hardest Thing About Test Automation

Writing your own tests on Postman comes with the added responsibility of maintenance. What this means is that every small to large change will need all hand-written tests to be updated on Postman Online for each time and every sprint.

In a fast-paced environment, code changes happen every day because the codebase is very agile. This means a disproportionate increase in maintenance effort because even a single line of code change could require multiple lines of an update on your postman Online tests.

If writing tests was not hard enough, how about assertions. The biggest problem with hand-written tests on Postman is to think about which business rules to assert and if you have covered them all. Phew, this needs a genius!

Teams that are working with Postman, split their time thinking about all the flows that can be automated, the assertions within them and still worry if they have covered every business rule inside and every possible workflow with these tests.

Tests automation built with Postman neither gives you the complete confidence of never missing bugs to production nor reduces your effort on test maintenance. Moreover, Postman users are unable to reuse their pre-written scripts or add more requests because of low script reusability. This means testers have to create new test scripts over and over for each project.

In comparison to Postman online, an automation tool created for API testing can aid QA teams in various ways when dealing with complicated and in-depth API tests. The benefit of well-structured test collections and frameworks is one of them. When it comes to finding and arranging test cases, it saves users time and effort. The nature of Postman becomes an impediment to cross-functional collaboration in Agile teams where every member must keep close communication with each other.