Fiddler vs Postman vs Swagger UI

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Fiddler

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Postman

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Swagger UI

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    • 490
      Easy to use
    • 369
      Great tool
    • 276
      Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
    • 156
      Easy setup, looks good
    • 144
      The best api workflow out there
    • 53
      It's the best
    • 53
      History feature
    • 44
      Adds real value to my workflow
    • 43
      Great interface that magically predicts your needs
    • 35
      The best in class app
    • 12
      Can save and share script
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      Fully featured without looking cluttered
    • 8
      Collections
    • 8
      Option to run scrips
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      Global/Environment Variables
    • 7
      Shareable Collections
    • 7
      Dead simple and useful. Excellent
    • 7
      Dark theme easy on the eyes
    • 6
      Awesome customer support
    • 6
      Great integration with newman
    • 5
      Documentation
    • 5
      Simple
    • 5
      The test script is useful
    • 4
      Saves responses
    • 4
      This has simplified my testing significantly
    • 4
      Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
    • 4
      Easy as pie
    • 3
      API-network
    • 3
      I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
    • 3
      Mocking API calls with predefined response
    • 2
      Now supports GraphQL
    • 2
      Postman Runner CI Integration
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      Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
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      Continuous integration using newman
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      Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
    • 2
      Runner
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      Graph
    • 1
      <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
    • 49
      Open Source
    • 34
      Can execute api calls from the documentation
    • 29
      Free to use
    • 19
      Customizable
    • 14
      Easy to implement in .Net
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      Mature, clean spec
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      API Visualization
    • 9
      Coverage
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      Scaffolding
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      Easy to use
    • 5
      Vibrant and active community
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      Elegant
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      Adopted by tm forum api
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      Clear for React
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      Api
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      Can deploy API to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

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    Cons of Fiddler
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    Cons of Swagger UI
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      • 10
        Stores credentials in HTTP
      • 9
        Bloated features and UI
      • 8
        Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
      • 7
        Poor GraphQL support
      • 5
        Expensive
      • 3
        Not free after 5 users
      • 3
        Can't prompt for per-request variables
      • 1
        Import swagger
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        Support websocket
      • 1
        Import curl
      • 3
        Need to learn YAML and RAML
      • 2
        Documentation doesn't look that good
      • 1
        Doesn't generate code snippets in different languages
      • 1
        You don’t actually get in-line error highlighting
      • 1
        Does not support hypermedia

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      What is Fiddler?

      It is a free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform. It helps you debug web applications by capturing network traffic between the Internet and test computers. The tool enables you to inspect incoming and outgoing data to monitor and modify requests and responses before the browser receives them.

      What is Postman?

      It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

      What is Swagger UI?

      Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API

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