I've been working with ServiceNow REST APIs and recently started looking for a better way to run API tests outside the browser.
Postman works well for manually testing endpoints, but once API validation becomes part of a CI/CD workflow, I find a terminal-based approach much easier to automate.
The main things I was looking for were:
- Running REST API tests from the command line
- Testing different environments
- Reusing the same test scenarios locally and in CI
- Working with OpenAPI-based APIs
- Getting reliable results for automated pipelines
I've tried tools like curl, HTTPie, and Newman, and I'm currently using Apidog CLI for some of my API testing.
What I find useful is being able to run the same API test scenarios during development and then reuse them in an automated pipeline instead of maintaining separate manual and CI tests.
For ServiceNow developers working with Scripted REST APIs and integrations:
Which terminal-based API testing tool are you using?
Do you rely mainly on ServiceNow's REST API Explorer and ATF, or do you also use external CLI tools for end-to-end API testing?
