RestAssured vs Postman automation Test in RESTful service
automation, testing
Solution
Postman : Advantages:
- Easy to use, hence quick to learn.
- Can be used for
- Manual/Exploratory as well as Automation Testing. Easy to integrate in CI.
Disadvantages :
- Cannot customize reporting.
- Each collection can be provided with only 1 data file. Hence limitations when designing data driven automation framework.
Rest Assured: Advantages :
- Provides DSL so that the test are Behaviour driven.
- Java Library,hence the automation suite can be designed such that code can be reusable.
- More the reusability, Lesser is the maintainence cost.
- Can be used with any customised/open source reporting tool.
- No limitations while designing data-driven automation framework design. Can use excel or csv as data provider.
Problem
I tried writing tests in postman to validate the response in postman. Want to know what are all the limitations in postman testing and how it is compared to Rest Assured.