WireMock VS pactum

This article reveals how to integrate WireMock into Fastify with ease, enabling developers to effortlessly generate mock responses for external services. Join us as we explore the straightforward process of seamlessly integrating and optimizing Fastify applications using WireMock for enhanced testing capabilities.

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

PactumJS with JSON Schema integration.

Pactum is quite powerful allowing different kind of E2E tests, you pass the base URL to make a request and assert over the response, it has more assertion functions than supertest and also supports GraphQL

You will use Strapi to build the back-end of a simple To-Do list application. Then set up PactumJS, a testing framework to create automated tests for our back-end. We will learn the basics of Strapi while creating the back-end, dive into the basics of automated testing using PactumJS and learn about making different requests and validating the responses.

Either that, or using a tool that in my opinion is more robust, like pactum

PactumJS abstracts the challenging parts to write tests in an easy and fun way and ultimately making API Integration testing super easy.

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