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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by mrdootdoot on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:38AM (#50364737)
Have you considered converting this to an actual test suite in $language with AI doing the majority.
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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by Mashimo on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:00AM (#50364956)
No, not really. It's already unit and end-to-end tested.

But sometimes the tester needs to make a test where they create something via the official API to use it in other parts of the app. They just open Postman (soon to be replaced), select the collection, select the server, select POST-item and of the the races. Not everything needs to be AI.

We could vibe code something specific for our needs, but that would be more or less again just end up something like postman again? At least I currently don't have the vision to see a big change.

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by upmostly on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:17AM (#50365141)
<finger pointing up>

This.

Why do you have a collection that is passed to humans for manual testing in the age of agents?

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by Mashimo on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:43AM (#50365405)
See my other respons to parent.
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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by upmostly on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:29AM (#50366022)
I did, and you really should take a step back and ask an LLM how it can automate what you're doing manually as described above. You'd be surprised what's possible now.
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