Mocking with MITM

     

This project illustrates one way to mock your HTTP(S) service and write integration tests against it. It uses a Man-in-the-Middle reverse proxy to record the HTTP(S) responses and replays them.

The Use Case for this skeleton: You want to write a python client (client/) to simplify the use of an already existing HTTP Api (service/).

The already existing service takes time to deploy and must be mocked to run the integration tests of your python client.

Getting Started

Record tests cases

• In one terminal:

make spin_up_service

• In another terminal:

make start_recording

• In another terminal:

make create_test_cases

[Optional] Inspect your tests cases

make inspect_test_cases

Run the integration tests with your new mock !

make integration_tests

Once the tests are done, you can kill your mock container:

make clean_integration_tests

Reusing this project

If you wish to start using this project with a real client that you need to test, you can simply update the host & port of your service inside of the Makefile and the docker-compose.yaml.

The files/fodlers you need to copy:

• mock_service/
• Makefile
• docker-compose.yaml