What tools have you used for API testing? What's interesting about Postman and DevTools?

For testing APIs, I often use Postman and browser DevTools.

Postman is a powerful tool for manual and automated API testing. It allows:

• To craft requests with different methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.)
• To configure headers, request body, parameters
• To save request collections and testing scenarios
• To write tests in JavaScript to verify responses
• To automate tests and integrate with CI/CD

DevTools (for example, in Chrome) are useful for debugging web applications and APIs:

• The Network tab allows viewing all network requests and responses, including headers and bodies
• Quickly check what data is sent and received
• Convenient for debugging the frontend part and interacting with APIs

Thus, Postman is convenient for creating and automating API tests, while DevTools is useful for analyzing and debugging requests directly in the browser.