Mountebank 101

Day 1: Hello, World! Mountebank

• The Problem with End-to-End Testing
• Setting up
  • 3A pattern: Arrange, Act, Assert, Cleanup
  • Imposters: virtual services, a lightweight operation
• Hello imposter
  • Run: [Command line]
  • Create: [HTTP, file]
  • Delete: [HTTP]
• Saving multiple Imposters in the config file
• EJS

Day 2: Predicates

• Using predicates to send different responses for different requests
• Simplifying predicates on JSON request bodies
• Using XPath to simplify predicates on XML request bodies

Day 3: Behavior and Programming mountebank

• Creating Your Own Predicate
• Creating your own Dynamic Response

Day 4: Adding Behaviors

• Understand behaviors
• Decorating a response
• Adding latency to a Response
• Repeating a Response Multiple Times
• Replacing Content in The Response

Day 5: Record/Replay

• Setting up a proxy
• Generating the Correct Predicates
• Capturing multiple responses for the same request
• Ways to Replay a Proxy

Tricks

• HTTPS
• CORS: Cross-origin resource sharing
• Stub the Legacy Service
• The --datadir option

Setup and Install Mountebank

• Node.js
  • 12.16.1 LTS
  • 13.12.0
• mb
  • npm: npm install -g mountebank
  • yarn: yarn global add mountebank