Traffic Parrot documentation

Overview

This document is addressing Traffic Parrot v4.x.x. Traffic Parrot is a product of Traffic parrot Ltd. Traffic Parrot v4.x.x is a service virtualization technology. It provides test doubles to support the testing phase of SDLC by simulating APIs, services, and systems.

Where does Traffic Parrot fit in?

Traffic Parrot will be used to decouple from the dependencies in the testing phase of your SDLC. Depending on your infrastructure and test plans it can virtualize up to 100% of the test HTTP(S) traffic.

Administration console

The administrator console is accessed by a modern web browser.

Components

Each Traffic Parrot instance contains an administration console accessible via an HTML web page and a virtual service that the System Under Test will connect to. They run in separate JVM processes.

Traffic Parrot also supports JMS and native IBM® MQ APIs.

Features and capabilities

Traffic Parrot Enterprise provides a range of functionalities to help you with service virtualization:

HTTP and HTTPS service virtualization
gRPC service virtualization
JMS service virtualization (ActiveMQ, IBM® MQ, more coming soon)
Native IBM® WebSphere MQ service virtualization
File transfers
Record and playback traffic for HTTP(S), JMS, Native MQ and File transfers
Edit recorded traffic
Add mappings manually
Persisting the mappings on local filesystem in easy to version control format
Adding and editing request/response pairs by manually entering details
Adding and editing request/response pairs by using templates defined in a scenario file
Request matching
- XML, JSON or other body content
- XPath matching
- Regular expression matching
- Header value matching
- Request URLs and path matching
HTTP Passthrough mode
Recording proxied HTTPS traffic
Response templates with many types of extensions for generating dynamic responses
Generating responses based on data from CSV files
Simulating delayed responses
Simulating error and faulty HTTP responses and network faults
Filtering recording by content type
Logs access via browser
Importing RAML/Swagger/OpenAPI into HTTP mappings
Importing traffic from other service virtualization tools (on request)
Running in Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
And many more, explore the documentation for more details

Supported platforms

Traffic Parrot requires Java JVM version 8 or above. Traffic Parrot runs on most hardware platforms and operating systems supporting Java. That includes most server, desktop and laptop hardware providers as well as most operating systems like Windows, Linux and other UNIX systems.

Minimum hardware requirements

128MB RAM
200MB HDD

Minimum software requirements

Java version 8 or above
Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge or IE 10+ web browser

How to run a POC (proof of concept project)

Have a look at Proof of concept with on-premises installation at a large enterprise

Data sheet