Show HN: Smocker, a simple and efficient HTTP mock server for functional tests

by thiht • 6 years ago

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thiht• 6 years ago

Hey guys :)

My colleague and I just released Smocker[1][2], a mock server we use at our company to write functional tests of our microservices.

Smocker is tailored for our main use-case: a microservice environment.

After a few months of use in production, we’re pretty confident in its stability and proud of its main features:

- Mock declaration as code in YAML instead of JSON. It’s very handy to declare JSON payloads because you don’t need to escape anything,

- Great user interface, extremely useful to figure out what’s going on at any point, in the call history,

- Dynamic responses system, to compute mock responses dynamically using templates or Lua,

- Session system, to be able to import and export the current history and mock state, a very useful debugging feature.

- Proxy feature, when some calls don’t need to be mocked but simply forwarded,

- Nice documentation[1], we tried to polish it as much as possible,

- Good overall performances, we used other solutions before and sometimes had latency or crash issues from the mock server.

We hope it can be useful to others!

matcornic• 6 years ago

Nice

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