mockit
Library that make mocking of Go functions/methods easy (by pasdam)
hoverfly
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool for developers and testers (by SpectoLabs)
| mockit | hoverfly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 16 | 2,373 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 4.1 | 8.8 | |
| over 1 year ago | 6 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
mockit
Posts with mentions or reviews of mockit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Unit Testing in Golang
A different approach to mocking in Go https://github.com/pasdam/mockit that is more similar to JavaScript and Mockito (Java).
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 2024-11-03.
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Stubbing HTTP communication in E2E test with Hoverfly
In order to support requests to HTTPS sites Hoverfly comes with a bundled SSL certificate. However, as this is a testing tool, this certificate is self-signed, and needs to be marked as "trusted" before the applications using the proxy will attempt to connect to secure sites.
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10 Best API Mocking Tools (2024 Review)
Hoverfly is an open-source tool for mocking APIs. It features easy setup for mock configurations, random data generation, and conditional response setup. Hoverfly is useful for testing in various scenarios and troubleshooting issues.
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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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mockit and hoverfly you can also consider the following projects:
httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang
go-txdb - Immutable transaction isolated sql driver for golang
mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Go
gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽
mockitout - A language agnostic HTTP mock server for quick stub testing
gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
mockserver - Super slim & blazing fast mock server to replace the Java/NPM counterpart mockserver
go-localstack - Go Wrapper for using localstack
govcr - HTTP mock for Golang: record and replay HTTP/HTTPS interactions for offline testing