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Testing and Debugging

When building your application there are a number of tools you can use to assist with development, testing, and debugging. To asist with API request construction and analysing responses you can use well known tools such as Postman or Fiddler.

Postman

Website: https://www.getpostman.com/

Download site: https://www.getpostman.com/downloads/

Documentation: https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/launching-postman/introduction/

IMPORTANT

When configuring Postman to work in our Staging environment please ensure you set the api_endpoint variable to the correct base URL for your particular region.

RegionBase URL
Europe and UKhttps://eu-west-1.actionstepstaging.com
United Stateshttps://us-west-2.actionstepstaging.com
Canadahttps://us-west-2.actionstepstaging.com
Australiahttps://ap-southeast-2.actionstepstaging.com
New Zealandhttps://ap-southeast-2.actionstepstaging.com

When configuring Postman to work in our Production environment please ensure you set the api_endpoint variable to the correct base URL for your particular region.

RegionBase URL
Singaporehttps://ap-southeast-1.actionstep.com
Asia Pacific (ex Singapore)https://ap-southeast-2.actionstep.com
Europe / UKhttps://eu-west-1.actionstep.com
US Eastern Stateshttps://us-east-1.actionstep.com
US Western Stateshttps://us-west-2.actionstep.com
Canadahttps://ca-central-1.actionstep.com

Fiddler

Website: https://www.telerik.com/fiddler

Download: https://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler

Documentation: https://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/configure-fiddler/tasks/configurefiddler

Webhook Testing with Ngrok

One of the challenges of handling webhooks is being able to receive an incoming request into your development environment for testing and debugging purposes, without the need to open up your development environment to the public internet. Ngrok is one such tool that allows you to proxy an external incoming request to your development environment.

Website: https://ngrok.com/

Download: https://ngrok.com/download

Documentation: https://ngrok.com/docs