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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
Beeceptor [14] No; Proprietary[15] Yes (Free plan) HTTP1.1; HTTP2; HTTP(S); SOAP, MITM/Proxing; Swagger; OpenApi; TLS 1.2; XML; Local tunneling Yes Yes[16] No Yes
Camouflage Yes; MIT[17] Yes HTTP(S), HTTP/2 gRPC, Websockets, Thrift Yes[18] Yes[19] Yes[20] No
Castle Mock Yes; Apache 2[21] Yes HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes No
Charles Proxy No; Proprietary[22] No HTTP(S) Yes No No No
Ekko Proxy No; Proprietary Yes (non commercial use)[23] HTTP(S), JDBC; WSDL, Swagger, OpenApi, JWT. Yes[24] Yes (Scriptable) Yes No
Hoverfly Yes; Apache 2[25] Yes HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes Yes [26]
HAM [27] Yes; MIT[28] Yes HTTP(S), SOAP, MITM/Proxing, Swagger, XML, JSON, Jackson-Smile, Brotli, Record, Replay, Automatic tests, Schema verification Yes (Web) Yes (Dynamic Javascript[29] and Java Plugins[30]) Yes[31] No
HTTP Toolkit Yes; AGPL[32] Yes (Hobbyist Edition)[33] 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[34] Yes HTTP(S), Java interop[35] No Yes[35] No No
Mockadillo No; Proprietary No HTTP(S)[36] Yes Yes No Yes
Mocklets No; Proprietary[37] Yes HTTP(S) Yes No No Yes [38]
Mockoon Yes; MIT[39] Yes HTTP(S)[40] Yes Yes Yes [41] No
MockServer Yes; Apache 2[42] Yes HTTP(S) Yes[43] Yes Yes No
Mountebank Yes; MIT[44] Yes HTTP(S), TCP, SMTP[45] No Yes[46] Yes[47] No
mock.qa No; Proprietary Yes (Free plan)[48] gRPC, gRPC-web Yes Yes[49][50] No Yes
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)[51] AMQP, FIX, FTP, HTTP(S), ISO 8583, JMS,
JDBC, MQ, MQTT, .NET WCF, RabbitMQ, SAP, TCP/IP, etc.[52]		 Yes Yes Yes[53] Yes
Postman No; Proprietary Yes (Free Edition)[54] HTTP(S) Yes Yes (JSON Examples) No Yes
ProxyMan No; Proprietary Yes,[55] (Limited) HTTP(S), Websockets Yes Yes[56] No No
QuickMocker No; Proprietary Yes (Free Subscription)[57] HTTP(S) Yes Yes[58] No Yes
Rapidmock No; Proprietary[59] Yes (Free Edition) HTTP(S) Yes No No Yes
sMockin Yes; Apache 2[60] Yes HTTP, Websockets, Server Side Events, plus tools for real time monitoring & live response modification Yes Yes Yes No
Smocker Yes; MIT[61] Yes HTTP(S)[62] Yes Yes Yes No
SmartMock.io No; Proprietary[63] Yes [64] HTTP(S) Yes Yes No Yes
simulado Yes; MIT[65] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes Yes
SoapUI MockServer Yes; EUPL[66] Yes HTTP(S)[67] Yes[67] No[67] No[67] No[67]
Stoplight Yes; Prism[68] Yes (Free Edition)[69] HTTP(S) and generate mocks directly from OpenAPI Yes Yes Yes Yes
Traffic Parrot No; Proprietary[70] No;[71] 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 [72]

In beta:[73] 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[70] Yes[74] Yes[70] Yes[75][70]
tweak No; Proprietary Yes HTTP(S) Yes No No No
Wilma Yes; GPL v3.0[76] Yes [77] HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes [78] No
Wiremock Yes; Apache 2[79] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes Yes [80]
WireMock.Net Yes; Apache 2[81] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes [82][83] No
Wiresham Yes; Apache 2[84] 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. ^ Beeceptor eases API development and testing by allowing mocking, intercepting and MITM proxies
  15. ^ Beeceptor pricing
  16. ^ Handlebar templates for scripting; adding dynamic responses
  17. ^ Camouflage License
  18. ^ Camouflage UI
  19. ^ Scripting in Camouflage
  20. ^ Camouflage Docker
  21. ^ Castle Mock License
  22. ^ Charles Proxy EULA
  23. ^ Ekko Proxy License Agreement
  24. ^ Ekko Proxy Usage
  25. ^ Hoverfly license
  26. ^ Hoverfly Cloud
  27. ^ MITM, Tests and Recording API
  28. ^ HAM License
  29. ^ Js
  30. ^ Java
  31. ^ HAM Docker
  32. ^ HTTP Toolkit license
  33. ^ HTTP Toolkit tiers
  34. ^ Karate license
  35. ^ a b Karate-Netty home page
  36. ^ "Mockadillo". Mockadillo Homepage.
  37. ^ Mocklets Terms of Use
  38. ^ Mocklets
  39. ^ Mockoon license
  40. ^ "Mockoon". Mockoon features page.
  41. ^ Mockoon CLI dockerhub
  42. ^ MockServer License
  43. ^ MockServer Dashboard
  44. ^ Mountebank license
  45. ^ Moutebank home page
  46. ^ Mountebank injection
  47. ^ Running Mountebank in Docker
  48. ^ Free plan on GitHub Markeplace
  49. ^ Configure mock.qa
  50. ^ Configuration examples
  51. ^ Parasoft Virtualize Community Edition
  52. ^ Parasoft Virtualize home page
  53. ^ Virtualize Docker Files 1.0
  54. ^ Postman Pricing
  55. ^ Proxyman Pricing
  56. ^ Proxyman scripting
  57. ^ QuickMocker Pricing
  58. ^ QuickMocker RegExp & Shortcodes
  59. ^ Rapidmock home page
  60. ^ "Matthewgallina/Smockin". GitHub. 27 March 2022.
  61. ^ Smocker License
  62. ^ Smocker documentation
  63. ^ SmartMock.io Terms of Use
  64. ^ SmartMock.io pricing
  65. ^ simulado license
  66. ^ SoapUI Licence
  67. ^ a b c d e SoapUI MockServer documentation
  68. ^ Prism
  69. ^ Stoplight Pricing
  70. ^ a b c d Traffic Parrot home page
  71. ^ Traffic Parrot pricing
  72. ^ Traffic Parrot data sheet
  73. ^ Traffic Parrot list of beta features
  74. ^ Traffic Parrot Dynamic Responses Documentation
  75. ^ Traffic Parrot is compatible with Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift
  76. ^ Wilma License
  77. ^ Wilma Feature list
  78. ^ Docker images of Wilma
  79. ^ Wiremock License
  80. ^ Mocklab
  81. ^ WireMock.Net License
  82. ^ WireMock.Net .Net Core 2.0 Linux image
  83. ^ WireMock.Net .Net Core 2.0 windows-nano image
  84. ^ Wiresham License
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