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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 Quick start guide
API Simulator No; Proprietary[4] Yes HTTP(S) Yes[5] Yes[6][7] Yes[8] No Basic Concepts
Charles Proxy No; Proprietary[9] No HTTP(S) Yes No No No Charles Proxy Getting Started
Ekko Proxy No; Proprietary Yes (non commercial use)[10] HTTP(S) Yes[11] No Yes No Ekko Proxy
Hoverfly Yes; Apache 2[12] Yes HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes Yes [13] Hoverfly introduction
Karate Yes; MIT[14] Yes HTTP(S), Java interop[15] No Yes[16] No No Quick Start
Mountebank Yes; MIT[17] Yes HTTP(S), TCP, SMTP[18] No Yes[19] Yes[20] No Mountebank Getting Started
Parasoft Virtualize No; Proprietary Yes (Community Edition)[21] AMQP, FIX, FTP, HTTP(S), ISO 8583, JMS,
JDBC, MQ, MQTT, .NET WCF, RabbitMQ, SAP, TCP/IP, etc.[22]		 Yes Yes Yes[23] Yes
sMockin Yes; Apache 2[24] Yes HTTP, Websockets, Server Side Events, JMS (Queues and Topics), FTP Yes No No No [2]
simulado Yes; MIT[25] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes Yes simulado GitHub page
SoapUI MockServer Yes; EUPL[26] Yes HTTP(S)[27] Yes[27] No[27] No[27] No[27] MockServer quick start
Traffic Parrot Partial[28]; Proprietary[29] No HTTP(S), JMS (Queues and Topics), IBM® MQ, File transfers, gRPC, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Azure AMQP Service Bus[29]

In beta[30]: FIX, FAST, FIXatdl, SWIFT, AMQP, MQTT, RabbitMQ, 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,
Azure Service Bus, STOMP, Thrift, Avro, HTTP/2 (HTTP2), LWM2M, CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), ZeroMQ, Broker-J (BrokerJ), Qpid, QUIC and gQUIC (Google QUIC)		 Yes[29] Yes[31] Yes[29] Yes[32][29] Traffic Parrot Quick Start
Wilma Yes; GPL v3.0[33] Yes [34] HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes [35] No Wilma - combined stub and proxy
Wiremock Yes; Apache 2[36] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes Yes [37] Wiremock Getting Started
WireMock.Net Yes; Apache 2[38] Yes HTTP(S) No Yes Yes [39] [40] No WireMock.Net Wiki
Wiresham Yes; Apache 2[41] Yes TCP No Yes No No Wiresham Repo

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. ^ Charles Proxy EULA
  10. ^ Ekko Proxy License Agreement
  11. ^ Ekko Proxy Usage
  12. ^ Hoverfly license
  13. ^ Hoverfly Cloud
  14. ^ Karate license
  15. ^ Karate-Netty home page
  16. ^ Karate-Netty home page
  17. ^ Mountebank license
  18. ^ Moutebank home page
  19. ^ Mountebank injection
  20. ^ Running Mountebank in Docker
  21. ^ Parasoft Virtualize Community Edition
  22. ^ Parasoft Virtualize home page
  23. ^ Virtualize Docker Files 1.0
  24. ^ [1]
  25. ^ simulado license
  26. ^ SoapUI Licence
  27. ^ a b c d e SoapUI MockServer documentation
  28. ^ Traffic Parrot HTTP(S) component is based on open source Wiremock
  29. ^ a b c d e Traffic Parrot home page
  30. ^ Traffic Parrot list of beta features
  31. ^ Traffic Parrot Dynamic Responses Documentation
  32. ^ Traffic Parrot is compatible with Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift
  33. ^ Wilma License
  34. ^ Wilma Feature list
  35. ^ Docker images of Wilma
  36. ^ Wiremock License
  37. ^ Mocklab
  38. ^ WireMock.Net License
  39. ^ WireMock.Net .Net Core 2.0 Linux image
  40. ^ WireMock.Net .Net Core 2.0 windows-nano image
  41. ^ Wiresham License
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