MockServer VS Testcontainers

Compare MockServer vs Testcontainers and see what are their differences.

MockServer

MockServer enables easy mocking of any system you integrate with via HTTP or HTTPS with clients written in Java, JavaScript and Ruby. MockServer also includes a proxy that introspects all proxied traffic including encrypted SSL traffic and supports Port Forwarding, Web Proxying (i.e. HTTP proxy), HTTPS Tunneling Proxying (using HTTP CONNECT) and SOCKS Proxying (i.e. dynamic port forwarding). (by mock-server)

Testcontainers

Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container. (by testcontainers)
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MockServer Testcontainers
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4,447 7,721
0.8% 0.8%
0.0 9.8
21 days ago 6 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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MockServer

Posts with mentions or reviews of MockServer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
  • Please recommend a good API Mocking tool
    3 projects | /r/node | 16 May 2023
    The open-source examples are mockoon, mock-server.com, etc.
  • Testing with MockServer
    2 projects | dev.to | 13 Jun 2022
    I've just found out MockServer and it looks awesome 🤩 so I wanted to check it out repeating the steps of my previous demo WireMock Testing which (as you can expect) uses WireMock, another fantastic tool to mock APIs.

Testcontainers

Posts with mentions or reviews of Testcontainers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MockServer and Testcontainers you can also consider the following projects:

WireMock - A tool for mocking HTTP services

Mockito - Most popular Mocking framework for unit tests written in Java

GreenMail - Official master for the Greenmail project

Cucumber - Cucumber for the JVM

RabbitMQ-mock - Mock for RabbitMQ Java amqp-client

REST Assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

Karate - Test Automation Made Simple

Hoverfly Java - Java binding for Hoverfly

Pact JVM - JVM version of Pact. Enables consumer driven contract testing, providing a mock service and DSL for the consumer project, and interaction playback and verification for the service provider project.