Monitoring APIs with Postman

There are many ways to do things. Take something as simple as email inbox management. Some people read, sort, and archive every email they get. Others – like me – don’t bother to sort and archive their emails but they still read every one, and still others will have inboxes with thousands of unread emails since they only look at the important ones. We all have different approaches to how we think about and handle our email, and sometimes, seeing how someone else does it can be a bit shocking to us. It’s hard not to think of our way as the one that everyone uses.

This is one of the great challenges of testing. It is hard to think of ways of doing things that are different from the ways you do them. As testers, we want to prevent issues before they are released, but how do we go about predicting all the ways in which our customers will use our system? The truth is, we can’t. No matter how good we get at figuring out...