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How do sales/marketing/ops teams test APIs without using engineering resources?

2 pointsby dirtbag__dadabout 4 years ago
Say I’m a first sales hire and I want to run outbound email tests using different APIs to enrich or filter my data. There are a handful of data sources I can choose from. I don’t know what’s quality vs junk, and I don’t know what data will show results.<p>I’m excited to try it all, but my engineering team has very limited bandwidth and I’m not technical. Is there a tool that I can use to call the APIs I’ve found?<p>It would be infinitely better to be self sufficient than to hammer engineering while I’m exploring what works and what doesn’t.<p>Tools like Zapier _might_ be helpful here, but something that I can easily do batch API requests would be the dream.<p>Any suggestions?

4 comments

2rsfabout 4 years ago
I haven&#x27;t actually tried that but you can build BDD style tests for APIs using Karate [1]. Your feature file could be technical, but you can wrap that in some accessible keywords for non-techies<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;intuit&#x2F;karate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;intuit&#x2F;karate</a>
Rocketshipabout 4 years ago
sayprimer.com actually can do this and deliver you CSV files for outbound. I just finished building the automated outbound process for MainStreet and it required no engineer and it will be automated. Happy to chat more about how I did this if you want.
thedevindevopsabout 4 years ago
I&#x27;m not entirely positive its what you would want but maybe take a look at Postman
codegladiatorabout 4 years ago
not sure where you saw this, but usually they don&#x27;t. worst case scenario is UAT.