Building Better APIs with HTTPBot Insights

You’ve built something, or you’re working with something someone else built, and now you need to know if it actually works the way it should. If that something is a REST API, you’re in the right place. REST APIs are everywhere. They power the apps on your phone, the dashboards…

There’s a version of this conversation happening in every engineering team right now. Someone opens a ticket, mentions that AI can write test cases automatically, and suddenly everyone has an opinion. Proponents point to faster coverage, fewer manual steps, and tools that practically think alongside you. Skeptics push back: APIs…

A few years ago, writing an API test meant sitting down, reading through documentation, mapping out expected responses, and manually crafting requests one by one. It was slow, it was repetitive, and for teams moving fast, it was often the first thing that got cut when deadlines tightened. That’s changing.…

Most developers have a complicated relationship with API testing. The tools are powerful, sure, but they’re also bloated, desktop-bound, and built for a world where everyone does their best work sitting at a desk. If you’ve ever needed to quickly debug an endpoint while away from your main machine, or…

If you spend your days building or debugging APIs on a Mac, you’ve probably ended up with at least two or three API clients installed at different points in your career. You try one, hit a limitation, try another, and eventually settle into something that mostly works. The “mostly” is…

Think about the last five minutes on your iPhone. Maybe you checked the weather, scrolled through your social feed, booked a ride, or paid for coffee. Each of those tiny interactions involved your phone talking to a remote server, fetching data, and displaying it back to you in under a…

You are building a new feature for your iOS app. The UI is ready, the logic is mapped out, but the backend API your feature depends on is still weeks away from completion. Do you wait? Or do you find a way to keep moving forward? This is where API…

If you’ve ever had to test an API while working on an iPhone or Mac and found yourself reaching for a browser tab or a desktop tool that barely fits your workflow, you already know the problem. Most API testing tools were built with a desktop-first mindset, and porting them…

Rust was named the most admired programming language, with over 72% of developers who use it saying they want to continue working with it. At the same time, GraphQL continues to reshape how APIs are designed by giving clients more control over data fetching. When these two technologies come together,…

According to a 2023 Salt Security report, API attacks grew by 400% in the preceding 12 months, and a significant chunk of those vulnerabilities trace back not to the production environment but to the development and testing phase, where security habits tend to be looser.  Managing security during API testing…