MockMotorYour Application's Load Tests are Invalidated by Slow APIs. I Will Mock Them for You.
Control test data seeding and response times. Remove dependency on other teams.
Test APIs are Not Good for Load Testing
They go down “for scheduled maintenance” during your load tests.
Their response time jitter, making your results invalid.
They are not seeded with matching accounts.
The backend teams are not happy you run a load test.
You have to pay arm and leg to reserve high-capacity test environments.
Or, you have to scale down your tests and drop the stress tests altogether.
Troubleshooting across multiple downstream systems drives you crazy.
And it is the same story again every release.
... We've saved weeks and $$$ in LT by using mocks instead of PROD-like backends.
The Solution is Simple: Mock the APIs
Mocked APIs are always available.
Their response time and performance properties are predictable and can be configured as required.
Your load runs are easily comparable, apples-to-apples, and accounts are retained between releases to reproduce the scenarios exactly.
You can even simulate complex degradation scenarios!
And, importantly, the mocked APIs are orders of magnitude less expensive than real test environments.
Vlad D., API Architect.
Survivor of RPC, CORBA, EJB, SOA and WS.
Been There, Done That, Got XP
I’ve been in your shoes.
Since the early 2000s, I’m working with all flavours of IPC, from early RPC to SOA.
I’ve found that performance testing in distributed systems is often an afterthought, and teams often lack the resources and tools to thoroughly and efficiently load-test applications.
Today, I help my clients establish effective ways to test API-based applications during performance testing.
I build my own tools - WSDL Diff, Swagger Payload Validator and, of course, MockMotor (a stateful, LT-grade API mock server) - to deliver more accurate, better-tested results to my clients — faster than manual or off-the-shelf approaches allow.
I'm ready to help your team, too.
Done-for-You: I Build Your Mocks, Sprint by Sprint
If your team doesn’t have the tools, the API-mocking know-how, or the spare time — no worries! Let me solve this problem for you.
You can contract out mock service creation to me, from analysis to implementation to load-run support.
Message me for a short intake chat where we can determine if MockMotor and my services are a good fit for you.
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