katt vs dev

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katt		dev
	Project
3	Mentions	1
117	Stars	-
0.0%	Growth	-
0.6	Activity	-
12 months ago	Latest Commit	-
Erlang	Language
Apache License 2.0	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

katt

Posts with mentions or reviews of katt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.

Beyond OpenAPI
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023

What this misses is the curl response format.
Long time ago at Klarna we used this tool: https://github.com/for-GET/katt Here's an example: https://github.com/for-GET/katt/blob/master/doc/example-http...
KATT (Klarna API Testing Tool) Is an HTTP-Based API Testing Tool for Erlang
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022

https://github.com/for-GET/katt is the same concept, but following the pattern matching philosophy. Written in Erlang, available as a CLI tool as well but needs the erlang runtime installed.
Code example: https://github.com/for-GET/katt/blob/master/doc/example-http...
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors, thus biased, but the reason I'm mentioning katt is that the low barrier of entry for captures and asserts makes it a nice requirement tool for non-techs to write complex API scenarios.

dev

Posts with mentions or reviews of dev. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-25.

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022
Great tool and documentation <3
Started investigating how it can be integrated into GitLab CI/CD in the most efficient way.
Simple - install Hurl using before_script every time into the used container image. Example in https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/dev/hurl-playground...
Efficient - build a custom container image (the upstream container image behaves unexpected when overriding the entrypoint for CI/CD, need to investigate and create an issue) Example in https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/dev/hurl-playground...
A quick example to check the website body can be achieved with
```
  $ vim dnsmichi.at.hurl
```

What are some alternatives?

When comparing katt and dev you can also consider the following projects:

ponos - ponos is a simple yet powerful load generator written in erlang

museo - Snapshot testing for Rails views

test_that_json - JSON-related helpers for your Elixir testing needs

ob-http - make http request within org-mode babel

proper - PropEr: a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang

mix_erlang_tasks - Common tasks for Erlang projects that use Mix

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

excheck - Property-based testing library for Elixir (QuickCheck style).

bypass - Bypass provides a quick way to create a custom plug that can be put in place instead of an actual HTTP server to return prebaked responses to client requests.

amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir

Quixir - Property-based testing for Elixir

ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications