Enterprise organizations want quality applications, secure and future-proof. Most enterprise organizations do not struggle because they lack the tooling for it. As a matter of fact, they have already invested in platforms designed to improve software quality, identify security risks, enforce standards, and reduce deployment risk. Their challenge is that these tools often sit outside the deployment process itself. Developers need to leave the release flow, trigger scans manually, wait for results, switch between systems, and decide whether an application should continue to the next environment. These activities are important, but because they happen outside the pipeline, they are vulnerable to delay, inconsistency, and simple human oversight. When deployment decisions depend on information that takes place elsewhere, organizations must rely on people to remember and execute every required step every single time.

This becomes particularly challenging as organizations mature. Quality checks become more sophisticated. Security requirements increase. Governance standards expand. Teams introduce additional tools to help manage these responsibilities. While each tool can provide valuable insight, the overall release process often becomes fragmented. The information needed to decide whether software should be deployed is no longer available where deployment decisions are made. Instead, the deployment process is interrupted by calls, emails, dashboards, approval requests, scans, and reports spread across multiple systems.

Introducing POST and GET requests

POST and GET requests are new pipeline steps that can be configured in a pipeline design to address this disconnect. They allow Mendix Pipelines to integrate directly with external systems and tools as part of the software release process. Rather than asking teams to leave the pipeline, perform activities elsewhere, and manually interpret outcomes, organizations can now have those activities triggered and validated automatically. The result is much greater consistency and governance adherence. Quality, security, and other processes can happen according to company protocol every time a deployment runs, giving release decisions access to the information they need when they need it.

Triggering Menditect Test Automation (MTA) to test your applications

A common example can be found in automated testing. Many organizations want to validate the behavior of an application before promoting it further through the release process. Menditect is a prime example of a platform used to automate Mendix application testing and provide confidence that software behaves as expected. Before integrations such as this, teams that used Mendix Pipelines frequently needed to trigger test execution separately, monitor progress externally, and manually review outcomes before deciding whether a deployment could continue. That process works, but it introduces additional manual coordination into a workflow that organizations increasingly want to standardize.

With POST and GET requests, Mendix Pipelines can become part of that testing flow. A pipeline can trigger a Menditect test run, retrieve the resulting outcome, and use that information as part of the broader release process. Teams no longer need to treat testing as a disconnected activity that takes place beside the deployment workflow. Instead, testing becomes another piece of information available during deployment decision making. The value is that a test ran as part of a repeatable process that can be executed consistently across environments and releases. Organizations looking to implement this scenario can use their Menditect-specific documentation for implementation details and API configuration guidance.

Scanning your applications with Quality and Security Manager (QSM)

A second example is Software Improvement Group’s Quality and Security Management platform, often referred to as QSM. Organizations use QSM to gain insight into the quality, maintainability, and security characteristics of their applications. These insights help teams understand whether software aligns with organizational standards and quality objectives. Historically, that information often existed as a separate source of truth that needed to be consulted during release planning or before promotion to production.

By connecting QSM to Mendix Pipelines, organizations can make quality and security information available much closer to the release process itself. A deployment workflow can initiate the required activity, retrieve the resulting evaluation, and incorporate that information when determining whether software should proceed. Rather than quality findings being discovered after a release decision has already been made, they can become part of the decision process. This helps organizations move from manually reviewing reports to establishing a more predictable and repeatable release protocol.

So many more tools to connect with

While quality and security are among the most common scenarios, the possibilities extend much further. Some organizations want to register deployments in configuration management databases for traceability and audit purposes. Others want to notify operational teams through Microsoft Teams or Slack when a deployment succeeds or fails. Some organizations may rely on approval systems, change-management platforms, governance solutions, risk-management processes, or internally developed services that determine whether software may proceed. In some cases, teams may even validate business-specific conditions before going live. The common theme is that important release information often exists outside Mendix Pipelines. POST and GET calls provide a way to connect those systems to the release process without requiring organizations to abandon the tools they already trust and rely upon.

The broader outcome is improved governance. Governance is frequently associated with policies, controls, and compliance requirements, but in practice it often comes down to consistency. Organizations define processes because they want predictable outcomes. They want quality checks to run every time. They want security validations to happen every time. They want deployment decisions to be based on facts rather than assumptions. By bringing external systems closer to the deployment workflow, organizations can reduce reliance on manual coordination and increase confidence that important release activities occur according to established standards. The result is a release process that is easier to standardize, easier to audit, and easier to operate at scale.

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POST and GET requests are available today for organizations that want to start connecting external systems to Mendix Pipelines. Whether the goal is automated testing through Menditect, application quality insights through QSM, governance processes, release notifications, organization-specific integrations, or some fun experimentation, the capability provides a practical starting point for bringing external information into deployment decision making. We recommend you to read through the detailed explanation on the Mendix Docs documentation for POST and GET requests to get the pipeline design configuration right.

Looking ahead, this is only the first step in a broader orchestration journey. Future enhancements such as support for additional POST and GET requests within a single pipeline will enable organizations to connect multiple systems together and support increasingly sophisticated quality, security, governance, and release-management scenarios.