hoverfly
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool for developers and testers (by SpectoLabs)
govcr
HTTP mock for Golang: record and replay HTTP/HTTPS interactions for offline testing (by seborama)
| hoverfly | govcr | |
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| 4 | - | |
| 2,349 | 172 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 9.0 | 3.7 | |
| about 1 month ago | 6 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hoverfly
Posts with mentions or reviews of hoverfly.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
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We created WireMock, an API platform that is designed to improve developer productivity and enables developers and testers to Mock APIs in every stage of the API lifecycle
Use https://github.com/SpectoLabs/hoverfly
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Review: 10 Top API Mock Tools
Hoverfly is an open-source tool for mocking and simulating APIs. It is relatively easy to use and has a wide range of features for mocking and simulating APIs, including support for importing and exporting mock configurations, generating random data for responses, and setting up conditional responses based on the contents of incoming requests.
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What happens when a plugin/VST is no longer supported?
Depending how robust their check in is, you could intercept and emulate the reply with something like hoverfly too.
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API Mock Testing Frameworks
What is your recommendation? Is there one widely used in the Golang community? I have come across hoverfly, but I wanted to have a few to perform a good benchmark exercise. Thanks
govcr
Posts with mentions or reviews of govcr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning govcr yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hoverfly and govcr you can also consider the following projects:
httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang
gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽
mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Go
prettybenchcmp - cmd tool for automatic storage and comparison of benchmarks results
gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions
mockit - Library that make mocking of Go functions/methods easy
minimock - Powerful mock generation tool for Go programming language
go-localstack - Go Wrapper for using localstack
go-txdb - Immutable transaction isolated sql driver for golang