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Microsoft Education uses Postman Pro for integration testing

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Product Research & Development
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Microsoft Education, a new team within the multinational technology company, Microsoft Corporation, was tasked with developing APIs for the K12 and higher education market. These APIs were designed to facilitate tasks such as homework assignments, rostering, and classroom notebook use. However, the team faced a challenge in setting up robust integration testing for their APIs. They needed a solution that would allow them to release new changes to production with confidence and efficiency, despite their small team size. Additionally, they wanted to have ultimate control over their tests and integrate them with their own source control. Read More
About Customer	Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company founded in 1975. The company, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a wide range of products and services, including computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and more. The Microsoft Education team, which is a new team within the company, is responsible for developing APIs for the K12 and higher education market. These APIs are designed to make tasks such as homework assignments, rostering, and classroom notebook use easier for independent software vendors, systems integrators, and school IT. Read More
Solution	The Microsoft Education team turned to Postman Pro for their integration testing needs. They created integration tests for all of their endpoints in Postman and used Postman environment variables and test scripts to build their own flow control structures. They wrote JavaScript in a Postman pre-request or test script to create their own looping logic for delays and retries across a series of requests. Using Postman’s environment templates, they were able to run the same tests against various environments for testing, staging, and production. Beyond internal ping testing for their APIs, the team used Postman monitors to run their entire test suite at regular intervals, receiving alerts if a single test failed during a scheduled run in their preproduction or production environments. They also used the Postman Pro integration to sync their data with GitHub for source control. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Product Research & Development

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Microsoft Education, a new team within the multinational technology company, Microsoft Corporation, was tasked with developing APIs for the K12 and higher education market. These APIs were designed to facilitate tasks such as homework assignments, rostering, and classroom notebook use. However, the team faced a challenge in setting up robust integration testing for their APIs. They needed a solution that would allow them to release new changes to production with confidence and efficiency, despite their small team size. Additionally, they wanted to have ultimate control over their tests and integrate them with their own source control.

About Customer

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company founded in 1975. The company, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a wide range of products and services, including computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and more. The Microsoft Education team, which is a new team within the company, is responsible for developing APIs for the K12 and higher education market. These APIs are designed to make tasks such as homework assignments, rostering, and classroom notebook use easier for independent software vendors, systems integrators, and school IT.

Solution

The Microsoft Education team turned to Postman Pro for their integration testing needs. They created integration tests for all of their endpoints in Postman and used Postman environment variables and test scripts to build their own flow control structures. They wrote JavaScript in a Postman pre-request or test script to create their own looping logic for delays and retries across a series of requests. Using Postman’s environment templates, they were able to run the same tests against various environments for testing, staging, and production. Beyond internal ping testing for their APIs, the team used Postman monitors to run their entire test suite at regular intervals, receiving alerts if a single test failed during a scheduled run in their preproduction or production environments. They also used the Postman Pro integration to sync their data with GitHub for source control.

Impact #1	The Microsoft Education team was able to set up robust integration testing with just a few clicks, saving time and freeing up resources to focus on successfully shipping their product.
Impact #2	The team was able to create their own flow control structures using Postman environment variables and test scripts.
Impact #3	The team was able to run the same tests against various environments for testing, staging, and production, making it convenient to switch between environments on an ad hoc basis.

Impact #1

The Microsoft Education team was able to set up robust integration testing with just a few clicks, saving time and freeing up resources to focus on successfully shipping their product.

Impact #2

The team was able to create their own flow control structures using Postman environment variables and test scripts.

Impact #3

The team was able to run the same tests against various environments for testing, staging, and production, making it convenient to switch between environments on an ad hoc basis.

Benefit #1	The team was able to run the full test suite every 2 hours using Postman monitors.

Benefit #1

The team was able to run the full test suite every 2 hours using Postman monitors.

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Microsoft Education uses Postman Pro for integration testing

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