HTTP Toolkit vs. Runscope vs. SQL Server Data Access Components vs. WireMock Comparison Chart

An API Monitoring (Runscope) API test is a group of one or more HTTP requests executed sequentially to evaluate the uptime, performance and correctness of an API. For each step in the test, you can define Assertions to validate response data and Variables to extract data to be used in subsequent requests. A test Passes if all the assertions pass. A test Fails if any assertion fails, or another error is encountered, such as a network connection problem. Your customers shouldn’t be the ones telling you about downtime and breakages. Runscope supports the notification tools you already use, like PagerDuty, Slack, HipChat, email, webhooks and more. Proactively monitor service performance to quickly catch and debug API problems fast. Stay ahead of intermittent failures before they become major issues with the API Dashboard and daily API Performance Report. Verify that the structure and content of your API calls meets your expectations. Powerful and flexible assertions give you total control.

WireMock is a simulator for HTTP-based APIs. Some might consider it a service virtualization tool or a mock server. It enables you to stay productive when an API you depend on doesn't exist or isn't complete. It supports testing of edge cases and failure modes that the real API won't reliably produce. And because it's fast it can reduce your build time from hours down to minutes. MockLab is a hosted API simulator built on WireMock, with an intuitive web UI, team collaboration and nothing to install. The 100% compatible API supports drop-in replacement of the WireMock server with a single line of code. Run WireMock from within your Java application, JUnit test, Servlet container or as a standalone process. Match request URLs, methods, headers cookies and bodies using a wide variety of strategies. First class support for JSON and XML. Get up and running quickly by capturing traffic to and from an existing API.