Service virtualization for test-driven development

Mountebank simulates services you’re dependent on so autonomous teams can continue development activities without having to wait on anyone.

The agile approach to software development relies on service virtualization to give each IT team autonomy. This approach removes blockages and allows autonomous teams to continue development activities without having to wait on anyone. That way, integration testing can commence as soon as teams start iterating/sprinting.

There is a great new tool called mountebank that is ideal for virtualizing any service. Using this tool, you can quickly stand up a local server that listens on a port you specify and takes orders. To make it simulate a service, you only have to tell it which port to listen to and which protocol to handle. The choice of protocols is:

• HTTP
• HTTPS
• SMTP
• TCP

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