Postman
Building, testing, and documenting APIs across the development lifecycle
Postman is an API platform used by developers, QA engineers, and technical teams to design, test, and document application programming interfaces. At its simplest it provides a graphical interface for constructing and sending HTTP requests — replacing the need to write curl commands or build test scripts from scratch. Teams use Postman to test API endpoints during development, share request collections as living documentation, write automated test suites that run in CI/CD pipelines, and mock endpoints before implementation is complete. Postman is the dominant tool in its category and is referenced explicitly in API development, backend engineering, and QA engineering roles across OccuVista's corpus. It is available on a freemium basis and requires no infrastructure to start using.
Official Website
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- Sending HTTP requests to REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs to test and inspect endpoint behaviour during development
- Organising API requests into named collections that document a service and can be shared and run across a development team
- Writing automated test scripts that validate API response bodies, status codes, and headers as part of a CI/CD pipeline
- Generating API documentation automatically from a Postman collection so it remains in sync with the actual implementation
- Mocking API endpoints during development so frontend and backend teams can work in parallel before integration is complete
Postman Learning Resources
The official Postman Learning Center at learning.postman.com covers API testing fundamentals through advanced automation with free structured content. The official documentation at learning.postman.com/docs provides detailed reference for every platform feature.