Hoverfly
Lightweight service virtualization and API simulation
Hoverfly is a lightweight service virtualization tool that captures and simulates HTTP and HTTPS traffic for testing. It lets teams replace slow or unavailable dependencies with simulations.
Key features
- Capture and replay traffic
- Service virtualization
- Latency and fault simulation
- Lightweight Go binary
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (2.5k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
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