API Testing Simplified: Postman's Long Polling

Опубликовано: 25 Июль 2026
на канале: Valentin Despa
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A common issue when doing API testing is to wait for a specific result. For example, waiting for an order to be processed until you can execute the following steps in the workflow.

So how to loop or retry a request in Postman until the desired response is obtained? In this tutorial, I will demonstrate two ways on how you can do that.

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