Best API Testing Tools
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What are API Testing Tools?
API testing software is used to test and validate the functionality, performance, security, and reliability of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These tools help ensure that APIs perform as expected under various conditions and meet the required business and technical requirements. Features typically include automated testing, request/response validation, load testing, security testing (e.g., for vulnerabilities and authentication), and performance testing. API testing software often supports integration with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to facilitate automated testing as part of the software development lifecycle. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Testing tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Blackbird API Development
Ambassador
Accelerate Development of Prod-Ready APIs. AI-Powered Code Gen, Mocking in Minutes, and On-Demand Ephemeral Test Environments. * Design Efficiently: Generate standardized OpenAPI specs with AI assistance, allowing you to begin coding faster. * Mock Effortlessly: Create shareable API mocks without manual coding, enabling rapid validation. * Automate Repetitive Tasks: Utilize AI to automatically generate boilerplate code for both client and server-side APIs. * Test Effectively: Access publicly available URLs for testing in a production-like test environment through Blackbird's ephemeral testing environments. * Debug Seamlessly: Set breakpoints and debug directly from your preferred IDE with Blackbird's integrated debugging tools. * Deploy Smoothly: Utilize a 24/7 hosted environment for progressive and repeated testing without reconfiguration, facilitated by Blackbird's containerized deployment.Starting Price: $69/month -
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Parasoft
Parasoft
Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver high-quality software with its AI-powered software testing platform and automated test solutions. Supporting embedded and enterprise markets, Parasoft’s proven technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to UI and API testing, plus service virtualization and complete code coverage, into the delivery pipeline. A powerful unified C and C++ test automation solution for static analysis, unit testing and structural code coverage, Parasoft C/C++test helps satisfy compliance with industry functional safety and security requirements for embedded software systems.Starting Price: $125/user/mo -
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Testim
Tricentis
Testim is the fastest path to resilient end-to-end tests—codeless, coded or both. Testim lets you create amazingly stable codeless tests that leverage our AI, but also the flexibility to export tests as code. You can leverage Testim’s modern JavaScript API and your IDE to debug, customize or refactor tests. Store them in your version control system to keep them in sync with branches and run tests on every commit. Run parallel, cross-browser tests on our test cloud or Selenium-compatible grids while integrating with your CI and dev tools to run smoke tests on pull requests, end-to-end tests on release candidates, or full regression suites on a schedule. Customers like Microsoft, Salesforce, NetApp, Wix, and JFrog run millions of tests on Testim each month. Learn more on our website and sign up for your free account!Starting Price: $20,000 a year -
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Testsigma
Testsigma
Testsigma is a low-code end-to-end software testing platform that works out of the box. It's built to enable modern Product teams to collaboratively plan, develop, execute, analyze, debug, and report on their automated testing—for websites, native Android and iOS apps, and APIs. Testsigma test scripts are code-agnostic. While the platform itself is built with Java, you can write test scripts in simple English or use the Test Recorder to generate airtight test scripts for websites and native mobile apps. You can also use the test recorder on your own device farm/grid or on Testsigma's built-in device lab on the cloud. The platform has built-in visual testing, parametrized or data-driven testing, 2FA testing, and more advanced features for easy test automation. Our AI automatically fixes unstable elements and test steps, identifies and isolates regression-affected scripts, and provides suggestions to help you find and fix test failures. -
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T-Plan Robot
T-Plan
T-Plan Robot automates scripted user actions for Test Automation or Robotic Process Automation (RPA) on Mac, Windows Linux & Mobile. T-Plan develops and sells two main toolsets. 1) Test Automation and 2) Robotic Process Automation (RPA). T-Plan Robot is a highly flexible, easy to use, image-based black box GUI automation tool that creates robust automated scripts and exercises applications in the same way as would an end-user. T-Plan Robot is platform-independent (Java) and runs on, and automates all major systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix plus mobile platforms. We believe we have a solution for any environment. GUI automation interacts with your business sponsor and development teams throughout the whole project lifecycle. Working intuitively at the screen level business analysts can help testers drive testable paths through the application, whilst at the same time combining with the development team to define repeatable actions to test code in continuous development.Starting Price: $400/month/user -
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TAST
SIPSA
TAST, Test Automation System Tool is a comprehensive cloud test automation framework that enables businesses to maximize their test automation across the complete testing process from an End User´s perspective. It is easy to use and its graphical interface defines the automated test cases across technological platforms. TAST automates: *Cross Browser testing *Mobile testing *Desktop applications testing *DDBB testing: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2. *File testing: txt, pdf, word, excel, csv, xml. *Mainframe testing: AS400, Host *APIs testing *Interface testing. *Remote Server testing. Types of tests you can automate with TAST: *Integration *Functional *System: Regressive, stress, load, parallel *Acceptance *A/B. -
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Tyk
Tyk Technologies
Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.Starting Price: $600/month -
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ZAPTEST
ZAPTEST Inc.
ZAPTEST is a leading Free and Enterprise software test automation and RPA tool. Offerings include Computer Vision technology that allows for Cross-Platform digital interface automation for UI, API, Load testing, and RPA in a seamless process. Combine that with our 1SCRIPT methodology, seamless automation, parallel execution, and unlimited licenses– you get an efficient testing suite that generates up to 10X ROI. We promise that if you can perform a procedure via any digital interface (live application or mockup) manually, ZAPTEST can automate this procedure As-Is! With ZAPTEST’s Enterprise Solution subscription program, you receive unlimited licenses across the entire organization. Regardless of whether your automation needs increase, your cost remains fixed. FARM allows ZAPTEST users to manage all of their devices so you can remotely control cross-environments and projects from any location. ZAPTEST uses many practical applications to enhance its software testing software capabilities -
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Ambassador
Ambassador Labs
Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience -
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Alithya GoTest
Alithya
Alithya GoTest is a collaborative test hub that is easy and quick to master and integrate, ensuring the quality of any professional digital solutions for companies requiring reliability without compromises. Ensure the quality of your application without sacrificing speed or agility with an easy-to-use, GUI test automation tool. Whether using scripts or not, our flexibility is unmatched, letting you create manual, automated or hybrid test suites for every desktop, web, and mobile application with ease including .Net, Java, WPF and Windows 10, modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular and iOS or Andoid with 2050+ browser and platform configurations. No need to jailbreak your devices. Alithya GoTest comes with a keyword library of over 1500 keywords, so you can ensure your GUI and API tests are scalable, robust, and easy to maintain. Alithya also offers consulting, coaching and training to ensure the success of your teams. -
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SOAPSonar
Crosscheck Networks
Validate the functional behavior of APIs with client input simulations. Success criteria rules provide validation and regression testing of API behavior. Tests can be run on-demand or automated. Supports latest OpenAPI standards for automatically parsing OpenAPI documents and building test cases for all of the defined operations. Test authentication schemes including OAuth, SAML, PKI, Basic Auth, Amazon Auth, and Kerberos. Verify SSO tokens and cookies. Create behavior baselines and run regression tests to determine if any breakage or change of behavior occurs. Includes JSON and XML Diff capability. Test encryption and decryption of JSON, XML, REST, and SOAP message patterns. Simulate load from multiple virtual clients to measure and validate the performance criteria of the target APIs. Dynamic security and identity provide real world simulated inputs. Built-in support for AWSv4 signatures to authenticate to and test Amazon AWS APIs.Starting Price: $80/month -
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SyncTree
Ntuple
SyncTree strives to be a "Super Connecting Platform" that can easily connect any services you want. With SyncTree, which consists of SyncTree STUDIO, a solution for building backend business logic with block coding, and Block Store, a platform for buying and selling pre-made backend function blocks like App Store, you can organically utilize data and connect services to achieve unlimited service expansion. Based on aPaaS, Block Store provides APIs from various services such as ChatGPT, DALLE, YouTube, etc. in the form of 'backend function blocks', which you can subscribe to and then combine as you want quickly in SyncTree STUDIO to build your business logic. SyncTree is for everyone, whether you're an individual or a business, and you can subscribe and use it according to your needs, from the free version to the PRO version.Starting Price: Free/1Month/3,000 Call -
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Telepresence
Ambassador Labs
Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.Starting Price: Free -
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Treblle
Treblle
Treblle is a federated API Intelligence platform built for enterprises that need full visibility, control, and security over their APIs. With a single integration, Treblle provides real-time API Discovery, Observability, Analytics, Governance, Runtime Security, and Developer Portals. It supports on-prem and private cloud deployments to meet strict compliance and data privacy requirements. Treblle helps teams shift left by surfacing API issues early in development and ensuring consistency across environments. Its AI-powered Integration Assistant simplifies onboarding and reduces manual effort. Trusted by global enterprises and recognized over 15 times by Gartner, Treblle accelerates innovation while giving you complete control over your API landscape.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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Stoplight
Stoplight
Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform. Use Stoplight Platform to enable consistency, reusability, and quality in your API lifecycle, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience. Here's what you can do with Stoplight Platform: - Design APIs with our easy visual designer, Stoplight Studio - Mock API designs automatically with Stoplight Prism mocking - Collaborate on your designs and invite internal and external users to provide feedback - Develop faster and better APIs - Test and enforce against style guides with Stoplight Spectral - Document both internal and external APIs automatically to create a delightful experience Utilize and integrate design-first workflows to quickly scale up standardized, collaborative, and well-governed API programs.Starting Price: Free -
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Bright Security
Bright Security
Bright Security is a developer-centric Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solution that helps organizations ship secure applications and APIs quickly and cost-effectively. Its approach enables quick and iterative scans to identify critical security vulnerabilities early in the SDLC without compromising on quality or delivery speed. Bright empowers AppSec teams to provide governance for securing APIs and web apps while allowing developers to take ownership of security testing and remediation work. Unlike legacy DAST solutions built for AppSec professionals, which are complex to deploy and find vulnerabilities late in the development process, Bright's DAST solution is optimized for the DevOps world. It can be deployed as early as the Unit Testing phase and run throughout the SDLC, learning and optimizing from every scan. By enabling organizations to detect and remediate vulnerabilities early in the SDLC, Bright reduces risk at a lower cost and effort. -
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APIsec
APIsec
Hackers are targeting loopholes in API logic. Learn how to secure APIs and prevent breaches and data leaks. APIsec finds critical flaws in API logic that attackers target to gain access to sensitive data. Unlike traditional security solutions that look for common security issues, such as injection attacks and cross-site scripting, APIsec pressure-tests the entire API to ensure no endpoints can be exploited. With APIsec you’ll know about vulnerabilities in your APIs before they get into production where hackers can exploit them. Run APIsec tests on your APIs at any stage of the development cycle to identify loopholes that can unintentionally give attackers access to sensitive data and functionality. Security doesn’t have to slow down Development. APIsec runs at the speed of DevOps, giving you continuous visibility into the security of your APIs. No need to wait for the next scheduled pen-test, APIsec tests are complete in minutes.Starting Price: $500 per month -
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TeejLab is at the forefront of applying data science and machine learning to help organizations with evolving challenges of API economy. The first and only industry solution designed for API governance at enterprises of global scale. What is your security and compliance posture vis a vis mainframe and legacy apps communicating with internal and external information systems via APIs? We built world’s first software composition analysis system for discovering shadow/hidden, private/public APIs via a curated knowledge base. What Google did to websites, TeejLab is doing to Web APIs. Our modular product portfolio is designed to meet varied API Governance needs of enterprises and communities, cost-efficiently while providing flexibility to add additional capabilities as those needs evolve. Whether you are an engineering shop looking to discover and benchmark APIs or a well-established API consumer or producer of APIs ready to expand your product portfolio, we have it covered.Starting Price: $179 per month
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Akto
Akto
Akto is an open source API security in CI/CD platform. Key features of Akto include: 1. API Discovery 2. API Security Testing 3. Sensitive Data Exposure 4. API Security Posture Management 5. Authentication and Authorization 6. API Security in DevSecOps Akto helps developers and security teams secure APIs in their CI/CD by continuously discovering and testing APIs for vulnerabilities. Akto's pricing is transparent on website. Free tier is available. You can deploy both self-hosted and in cloud. It takes only few mins to deploy and see results. Akto can integrate with multiple traffic sources - Burpsuite, AWS, postman, GCP, gateways, etc. -
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One APIMarketplace
DigitalAPICraft
Publish, consume, collaborate, accelerate your API journey, and enhance developer experience with our enterprise-grade, API platform-agnostic One APIMarketplace. Reduces API sprawl and API complexities through the operationalization of APIs, making them discoverable, consumable, easy to access, easy to collaborate, and more. One APIMarketplace brings down the time to market by effectively increasing the API adoption, through ease of access, API usage, and performance insights to boost the API consumption. Empower developers with intuitive documentation, community engagement, resources, SDKs, and sandboxes to accelerate API adoption. One APIMarketplace streamlines the discovery and usage of your APIs, guaranteeing a smooth and hassle-free experience for developers and businesses alike. Access comprehensive documentation and test APIs in a sandbox before integration. Gain insights into API usage, performance, and user behavior with our analytics dashboard.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Zoho QEngine
Zoho
Manage all test cases across platforms in one place, with Zoho QEngine's no-code, low-code as well manual coding features. Create, develop, manage and execute automated functional tests while collaborating with your team. Zoho QEngine's test automation software is everything you need to run your entire testing lifecycle. Zoho QEngine comes equipped to test web applications across browsers. With minimal coding/no-code build and manage automated test cases for web applications 10X faster. Automated testing for web applications is made simple with Zoho QEngine. With functionalities such as mobile emulators and simulators, Appium compatibility, and real devices Zoho QEngine ensures your test cases for mobile meets quality standards. Test, assert, manage, and automate all types of API requests and responses with Zoho QEngine's intuitive cloud-based API testing software. With interoperability API testing, Zoho QEngine has the functionalities you seek in a testing tool.Starting Price: $101.57 per month -
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Testfully
Testfully
From powerful API client features to advanced testing and monitoring, Testfully does it all. Enjoy the flexibility of cloud and offline-only storage, seamless team collaboration, and easy migration, all in one multi-platform tool. Easily transfer your data from Postman or Insomnia directly into Testfully. Flexible and secure, set global, environment, and folder variables scoped to workspace or user. Customize auth, parameters, headers, and body to build any HTTP request easily. Work together effortlessly, add teams, assign roles, and control folder access. Supports major schemes like OAuth2 for secure and streamlined authorization. From basic to complex, Testfully enables quick, effective testing without the need for coding, making advanced API testing accessible and hassle-free. Execute all requests in a folder simultaneously, sequentially, or randomly with just one click. Validate responses and perform contract testing using a declarative format, no coding is needed.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Speedscale
Speedscale
Validate the performance and quality of your apps with real-world traffic scenarios. Preview code performance, quickly spot problems, and rest assured your app runs optimally when it’s time to release. Mimic real-life scenarios, test load, and create intelligent simulations of third-party and internal backend systems to better prepare for production. No need to spin up costly new environments each time you test. Built-in autoscaling drives your cloud costs down even further. Bypass complex, homegrown frameworks and manual test scripts so you can ship more code, faster. Be confident that new code changes can handle high-traffic scenarios. Prevent major outages, meet SLAs, and protect the customer experience. Simulate third-party systems and internal backends for more reliable, affordable testing. No need to spin up costly, end-to-end environments that take days to deploy. Seamlessly migrate off legacy architecture without disrupting the customer experience.Starting Price: $100 per GB -
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API Swan
API Swan
Elevate your development process with our robust API solution, and ensure stability, performance, and reliability in every release. Seamless Integration with CI/CD, forging a cohesive development pipeline. API Swan is driven by the mission to forge a software testing platform that stands as the pinnacle of affordability and reliability, designed expressly for engineering teams navigating the early-growth stage startup terrain. Ship products at 10x velocity, and catch more bugs, effortlessly. 24/7 application monitoring for uninterrupted performance. Auto-generates regression tests from network traffic. Cutting-edge automated test case design, seamlessly entwined within your workflow. Effortless automatic documentation of APIs and schemas, saving precious time.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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Qodex.ai
Qodex.ai
Qodex.ai is an AI-powered platform that streamlines API testing and documentation, offering full automation without human intervention. Developed by and for developers, it enables users to add tests in plain English, eliminating the need for coding. The system automatically adapts as products evolve, ensuring continuous test coverage. Users can upload existing API files or utilize Qodex's SDK to create new ones, ready for testing in minutes. The AI learns the API and generates tests automatically, with the option to create custom tests by writing requirements in simple English. Tests can be run anytime, providing easy-to-read reports to quickly identify and fix issues. The platform also offers interactive API documentation, allowing users to ask questions and receive instant answers in an intuitive interface. It is a reliable tool for both front-end as well as back-end testing.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Appvance
Appvance.ai
Appvance IQ (AIQ) delivers transformational productivity gains and lower costs in both test creation and execution. For test creation, it offers both AI-driven (fully machine-generated tests) and also 3rd-generation, codeless scripting. It then executes those scripts through data-driven functional, performance, app-pen and API testing — for both web and mobile apps. AIQ’s self-healing technology gives you complete code coverage with just 10% the effort of traditional testing systems. Most importantly, AIQ finds important bugs autonomously, with little effort. No coding, scripting, logs or recording required. AIQ is easy to integrate with your current DevOps tools and processes. Appvance IQ was developed by a pioneering team who envisioned a better way to test. Their innovative vision has been made possible by applying differentiated, patented AI methods to test creation while leveraging today’s high-availability compute resources for massive levels of parallel execution. -
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TestEngine
SmartBear
TestEngine is an optimized test execution engine for automating SoapUI and ReadyAPI tests at a tremendous scale. With flexible deployment options, TestEngine can be installed in any cloud or on-premise environment using Docker, VMs, Mac, Linux, or Windows, supporting centralized execution models or distributed options. Accelerate your delivery pipelines by executing tests concurrently with TestEngine. Run large test suites alongside shorter ad-hoc test cases with minimal infrastructure maintenance. TestEngine queues requests to execute tests as they arrive, staging projects being submitted during peak times. Results are returned to distributed clients as demand fluctuates, while also being stored for consumption later. Testing is an integral part of shipping and maintaining high-quality, stable applications and services. TestEngine allows teams to accelerate test executions while avoiding complex environments. -
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Qyrus
Qyrus
Utilize web, mobile, API, and component testing for seamless digital user journeys. Test your web applications with confidence, our platform gives you the assurance you need when it comes to speed, efficiency, and cost reduction. Leverage the Qyrus web recorder, in an already low code no-code platform to build tests faster and reduce time to market. Maximize coverage across scripts using test-building features including data parameterization and global variables. Run comprehensive test suites on the go with the scheduled runs feature. Deploy AI-driven script repair to combat flakiness and brittleness due to element shifts and UI changes to ensure application functionality throughout the development life cycle. Manage the test data in one place, eliminating the tedious steps of importing data from external sources using Qyrus’ Test Data Management (TDM). Allow users to synthetically generate data within the TDM system for usage during runtime. -
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Kusho
Kusho
Transform your Postman collection into exhaustive test suites that plug into your CI/CD pipeline. Simply add a link to your Postman collection and generate exhaustive test suites. You can also manually prompt Kusho AI with basic API details. Runs in sync with your development process and auto-updates. Modern software teams are all about multitasking, and writing test cases can take away hours of a developer's valuable time. At KushoAI, we’re building the first AI agent that takes API testing off a developer’s plate. Developers focus on what they do best, and product releases are smoother than ever. Generate exhaustive test suites for each API so you save hours of manual effort. Customizable to meet your company's context; simply input additional natural language prompts and get test code in seconds. KushoAI understands your natural language prompt and produces test case code instantly. KushoAI can auto-run relevant test suites at any stage of your CI/CD pipeline. -
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WireMock
WireMock
WireMock is a simulator for HTTP-based APIs. Some might consider it a service virtualization tool or a mock server. It enables you to stay productive when an API you depend on doesn't exist or isn't complete. It supports testing of edge cases and failure modes that the real API won't reliably produce. And because it's fast it can reduce your build time from hours down to minutes. MockLab is a hosted API simulator built on WireMock, with an intuitive web UI, team collaboration and nothing to install. The 100% compatible API supports drop-in replacement of the WireMock server with a single line of code. Run WireMock from within your Java application, JUnit test, Servlet container or as a standalone process. Match request URLs, methods, headers cookies and bodies using a wide variety of strategies. First class support for JSON and XML. Get up and running quickly by capturing traffic to and from an existing API.