WireMock VS Pact JVM

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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

API Contract Testing might be worth exploring. Gives you the ability to run it quickly locally or in CI/CD. A centralized way to validate if your changes broke another service might also be interesting. That series of videos from the same team is gold: https://docs.pact.io

We use Pact for contract testing https://docs.pact.io/

The introduction here is quite good: https://docs.pact.io/

Pact.Net documentation: https://docs.pact.io/ Mountebank documentation: http://www.mbtest.org/ The Microsoft.AspNetCore.TestHost package on GitHub: https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/tree/main/src/Testing/Microsoft.AspNetCore.TestHost

There's also https://docs.pact.io/ but I haven't had time yet to really look into it but probably someone else can tell something about it.

This PoC shows a step by step implementation of contract testing using Pact.

Contract tests assert that inter-application messages conform to a shared understanding documented in a contract. Without contract testing, the only way to ensure that applications will work correctly together is by using expensive and brittle integration tests.

If you are updating your API based on user feedback, you can work with your team or stakeholders to build an API contract describing how your API should function. You can use JSON schemas to document your API’s endpoint response codes and set up the contract. The contract must be accepted by all parties. Then, any changes made to the API must pass the contract test before being approved. Contract testing can be automated and incorporated into your CI/CD pipeline. Contract testing tools include Pact and Spring Cloud Contract.

Pact.

I have contract tests (https://docs.pact.io/) to ensure the integration works.