WireMock VS Karate

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https://github.com/wiremock/wiremock is one such tool.

Check out https://wiremock.org/

Me and my company use WireMock a lot, it's nice tool but didn't find any nice ways to integrate with PHPUnit. What is WireMock you may ask - it's tool for mocking http requests/responses, like 3-rd apis https://wiremock.org. Wanted to use our tool which was under private repository in other projects I work in, so decided to release our own in-house WireMock integration with PHPUnit as library so it can be used by other people - https://packagist.org/packages/cobiro/wiremock, features are pretty simple:

A nightmare indeed! Try wiremock

Yes I agree, mocking is a bit of an overloaded term, and the libraries we used for stubbing like gRPC Mock and WireMock also have `mock` in their name, even though they are real servers with stubbing

This is why we need better tools which will give benefits for the added complexity. If you need to create both the feature files AND the code, it's just complexity with little benefits. But frameworks like https://github.com/karatelabs/karate or https://github.com/Endava/cats are hiding this complexity and remove the code layer entirely. Which, in my view, this is where you need to be in 2023, particularly for API testing.

- https://insomnia.rest/ - https://hoppscotch.io/ - https://github.com/karatelabs/karate - https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman

Congrats on the launch ! I'm the lead dev of [Karate](https://github.com/karatelabs/karate) and was wondering if you had come across it. I strongly agree that collaboration should be [via Git](https://www.karatelabs.io/first-class-citizens) and the IDE and traditional solutions fall short. I hope Karate's syntax passes your "memory friendly" test :) We get regular feedback is that it is easy to read and even non-programmers can pick it up. One thing I feel we do really well is chaining of HTTP requests. And we have plugins for [IntelliJ](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/19232-karate) and [VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=karatela...).

Maintaining a tool like this as open-source is hard, all the best !

FWIW https://github.com/karatelabs/karate is 83% Java.

We use karate to test our fully integrated graphql backend. Has Gherkin language support.

Try Karate

Take a look at Karate.