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The tools listed here support emulating[1] or simulating APIs and software systems. They are also called[2] API mocking tools, service virtualization tools, over the wire test doubles and tools for stubbing and mocking HTTP(S) and other protocols.[1] They enable component testing in isolation.[3]

In alphabetical order by name (click on a column heading to sort by that column):

Name FOSS Free Supported protocols and APIs Has a GUI Scriptable/Programmable Docker support Cloud offering
API Simulator No; Proprietary[4] Yes HTTP/2 with TLS ALPN; HTTP/2 with prior knowledge; HTTP/2 upgrade from HTTP/1.1; HTTP/1.x with and without TLS/SSL; HTTP(S) Yes[5] Yes[6][7] Yes[8] No
apiUi [9] Yes; GPL v3.0[10] Yes HTTP(S); STOMP, Wsdl; Swagger; OpenApi; Cobol Yes[11] Yes[12] Yes[13] No
Camouflage Yes; MIT[14] Yes HTTP(S), HTTP/2 gRPC, Websockets Yes[15] Yes[16] Yes[17] No
Castle Mock Yes; Apache 2[18] Yes HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes No
Charles Proxy No; Proprietary[19] No HTTP(S) Yes No No No
Ekko Proxy No; Proprietary Yes (non commercial use)[20] HTTP(S), JDBC; WSDL, Swagger, OpenApi, JWT. Yes[21] Yes (Scriptable) Yes No
Hoverfly Yes; Apache 2[22] Yes HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes Yes [23]
HTTP Toolkit Yes; AGPL[24] Yes (Hobbyist Edition)[25] HTTP(S) Yes No No No
Int4 IFTT No; Proprietary No HTTP(S), Middleware virtualization: SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Intelligent Suite, Dell Boomi, Software AG Webmethods, SAP IDOCs Yes Yes No No
Karate Yes; MIT[26] Yes HTTP(S), Java interop[27] No Yes[28] No No
Mockadillo No; Proprietary No HTTP(S)[29] Yes Yes No Yes
Mocklets No; Proprietary[30] Yes HTTP(S) Yes No No Yes [31]
Mockoon Yes; MIT[32] Yes HTTP(S)[33] Yes Yes Yes [34] No
MockServer Yes; Apache 2[35] Yes HTTP(S) Yes[36] Yes Yes No
Mountebank Yes; MIT[37] Yes HTTP(S), TCP, SMTP[38] No Yes[39] Yes[40] No
NetOcean No; Proprietary No Web Services Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2, REST, SOAP, Hessian

Others: IMAP, FTP, DNS, XML, JSON, WebSocket

ESB / Middleware Protocols, TIBCO JMS

Database Protocols: JDBC

Proprietary: TCP, UDP

Platforms: TIBCO-EMS, IBM-MQ, Kafka

SOA Protocols: SOAP, HTTP, XML, REST

SMS Gateway Providers: SMTP, POP3

Bill Payments Services: Gift card- PINPAD, AJB

Yes Yes Yes Yes
Parasoft Virtualize No; Proprietary Yes (Community Edition)[41] AMQP, FIX, FTP, HTTP(S), ISO 8583, JMS,
JDBC, MQ, MQTT, .NET WCF, RabbitMQ, SAP, TCP/IP, etc.[42]		 Yes Yes Yes[43] Yes
Postman No; Proprietary Yes (Free Edition)[44] HTTP(S) Yes Yes (JSON Examples) No Yes
QuickMocker No; Proprietary Yes (Free Subscription)[45] HTTP(S) Yes Yes[46] No Yes
Rapidmock No; Proprietary[47] Yes (Free Edition) HTTP(S) Yes No No Yes
sMockin Yes; Apache 2[48] Yes HTTP, Websockets, Server Side Events, plus tools for real time monitoring & live response modification Yes Yes Yes No
Smocker Yes; MIT[49] Yes HTTP(S)[50] Yes Yes Yes No
SmartMock.io No; Proprietary[51] Yes [52] HTTP(S) Yes Yes No Yes
simulado Yes; MIT[53] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes Yes
SoapUI MockServer Yes; EUPL[54] Yes HTTP(S)[55] Yes[55] No[55] No[55] No[55]
Stoplight Yes; Prism[56] Yes (Free Edition)[57] HTTP(S) and generate mocks directly from OpenAPI Yes Yes Yes Yes
Traffic Parrot No; Proprietary[58] No; [59] HTTP(S) including REST and SOAP

gRPC

JMS (ActiveMQ TCP, ActiveMQ AMQP 1.0, Azure AMQP 1.0, RabbitMQ AMQP 0.9.1, IBM® WebSphere MQ 7.5+)

Native IBM® WebSphere MQ 7.5+

AMQP 1.0

File transfers over a filesystem

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Azure Service Bus AMQP 1.0 [60]


In beta: [61] FIX, FAST, FIXatdl, SWIFT, MQTT, SonicMQ, Kafka, CORBA, FTP, SFTP, .NET WCF, RMI, MTP, TIBCO EMS, CICS, SAP RFC, JDBC, Mongo, Databases, OFX, IFX, RIXML, AS2, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS IoT Message Broker, XMPP, Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), Azure Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, STOMP, Thrift, Avro, HTTP/2 (HTTP2), LWM2M, CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), ZeroMQ, Broker-J (BrokerJ), Qpid, QUIC and gQUIC (Google QUIC)

Yes[58] Yes[62] Yes[58] Yes[63][58]
tweak No; Proprietary Yes HTTP(S) Yes No No No
Wilma Yes; GPL v3.0[64] Yes [65] HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes [66] No
Wiremock Yes; Apache 2[67] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes Yes [68]
WireMock.Net Yes; Apache 2[69] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes [70] [71] No
Wiresham Yes; Apache 2[72] Yes TCP No Yes No No

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Thought Works Technology Radar Mountebank
  2. ^ Tom Akehurst at the Next Gen Service Virtualisation Forum
  3. ^ Martin Fowler, Microservce Testing, Component Testing
  4. ^ API Simulator License Agreement
  5. ^ API Simulation Modeler
  6. ^ Scripting in API Simulator
  7. ^ Simula Template Scriptlets
  8. ^ API Simulator in Docker Container
  9. ^ apiUi how to mock api calls? how to test api calls?
  10. ^ apiUi License
  11. ^ The apiUi GUI
  12. ^ apiUi Scripting; adding dynamics
  13. ^ apiUi Docker
  14. ^ Camouflage License
  15. ^ Camouflage UI
  16. ^ Scripting in Camouflage
  17. ^ Camouflage Docker
  18. ^ Castle Mock License
  19. ^ Charles Proxy EULA
  20. ^ Ekko Proxy License Agreement
  21. ^ Ekko Proxy Usage
  22. ^ Hoverfly license
  23. ^ Hoverfly Cloud
  24. ^ HTTP Toolkit license
  25. ^ HTTP Toolkit tiers
  26. ^ Karate license
  27. ^ Karate-Netty home page
  28. ^ Karate-Netty home page
  29. ^ "Mockadillo". Mockadillo Homepage.
  30. ^ Mocklets Terms of Use
  31. ^ Mocklets
  32. ^ Mockoon license
  33. ^ "Mockoon". Mockoon features page.
  34. ^ Mockoon CLI dockerhub
  35. ^ MockServer License
  36. ^ MockServer Dashboard
  37. ^ Mountebank license
  38. ^ Moutebank home page
  39. ^ Mountebank injection
  40. ^ Running Mountebank in Docker
  41. ^ Parasoft Virtualize Community Edition
  42. ^ Parasoft Virtualize home page
  43. ^ Virtualize Docker Files 1.0
  44. ^ Postman Pricing
  45. ^ QuickMocker Pricing
  46. ^ QuickMocker RegExp & Shortcodes
  47. ^ Rapidmock home page
  48. ^ [1]
  49. ^ Smocker License
  50. ^ Smocker documentation
  51. ^ SmartMock.io Terms of Use
  52. ^ SmartMock.io pricing
  53. ^ simulado license
  54. ^ SoapUI Licence
  55. ^ a b c d e SoapUI MockServer documentation
  56. ^ Prism
  57. ^ Stoplight Pricing
  58. ^ a b c d Traffic Parrot home page
  59. ^ Traffic Parrot pricing
  60. ^ Traffic Parrot data sheet
  61. ^ Traffic Parrot list of beta features
  62. ^ Traffic Parrot Dynamic Responses Documentation
  63. ^ Traffic Parrot is compatible with Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift
  64. ^ Wilma License
  65. ^ Wilma Feature list
  66. ^ Docker images of Wilma
  67. ^ Wiremock License
  68. ^ Mocklab
  69. ^ WireMock.Net License
  70. ^ WireMock.Net .Net Core 2.0 Linux image
  71. ^ WireMock.Net .Net Core 2.0 windows-nano image
  72. ^ Wiresham License
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