REST Assured VS MockServer

Compare REST Assured vs MockServer and see what are their differences.

REST Assured

Java DSL for easy testing of REST services (by rest-assured)

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)
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REST Assured MockServer
2 4
6,685 4,436
0.9% 1.2%
8.0 0.0
5 days ago 2 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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REST Assured

Posts with mentions or reviews of REST Assured. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-09.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing REST Assured and MockServer 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

Karate - Test Automation Made Simple

Citrus - Framework for automated integration tests with focus on messaging integration

Spock - The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework.

JUnit - A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java.

AssertJ - AssertJ is a library providing easy to use rich typed assertions

Gatling - Modern Load Testing as Code

RabbitMQ-mock - Mock for RabbitMQ Java amqp-client

Cucumber - Cucumber for the JVM