Lightweight API simulation especially for microservices
Mountebank
Over-the-wire test doubles for services in any language
About Mountebank
A tool providing over-the-wire test doubles, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and SMTP stubbing, verification and proxying so teams can test services in isolation regardless of implementation language. It is free and open source, so teams can self-host it, inspect the code and adapt it to their own infrastructure without licence fees or vendor lock-in. Typical users run it alongside existing workflows to cut manual effort, improve visibility and keep full control over data, configuration and upgrades over time.
Mountebank 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: mock, testing, stubs, services
- Official site: mbtest.org
About the Developer Tools category
Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside Mountebank, it includes Hoverfly, Microcks, Pact, Spring Cloud Contract.
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