One more thing I don't see mentioned is that you can share requests with your team easily, so if you worked on an API integration, you can document it, share it with your team, and when the next time someone else needs to fix something, they can find something that worked at some point and has all the required fields.
Of course you could also just check in to version control these requests as curl commands, so if your team has the technical knowhow, that's about almost the same.
Or even better, you write some tests in your language to make these requests, then you have an integration test, too.
Of course you could also just check in to version control these requests as curl commands, so if your team has the technical knowhow, that's about almost the same.
Or even better, you write some tests in your language to make these requests, then you have an integration test, too.