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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:43AM (#30499203)
I think you're actually testing with bash (and included tools) there.

Which is fine, bash is a programming language of sorts (I see "if" statements!), and you can store the tests in text files in git. If those are the tools that you like to use, and it works, great.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by lambic on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:04AM (#30499373)
That's why I said "as much as possible". I keep the bash scripts as linear as possible so they are "scripts" rather than "programs".

We started out using cypress, which I was convinced was the wrong tool for testing APIs so I switched to this approach, which sped up our CI deployments significantly.

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