Hoverfly

Lightweight API simulation especially for microservices

About Hoverfly

A lightweight API simulation tool written in Go that captures, simulates and modifies HTTP and HTTPS traffic, used for testing microservices, automating integration tests and virtualising dependencies. Because the code is openly available, it can be audited, extended and run on private infrastructure, which makes it attractive to teams with privacy or compliance needs. It is commonly adopted through containers or packages, evaluated against commercial alternatives and kept because it solves a focused problem reliably at scale.

Hoverfly key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: api simulation, testing, microservices, proxy
Official site: hoverfly.io

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Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside Hoverfly, it includes Microcks, Pact, Spring Cloud Contract, Karate.

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