FAQs

Yes!

Yes!

We pride ourselves that you can run our software almost anywhere. It can be a server, laptop, docker or VM. The tool is very lightweight, so it can be run on existing hardware or VMs as well, no need to order new server VMs. You do need to install or use any thick-client software (workstation) on your laptops; you use a web browser instead.

Not yet directly. Currently only via gRPC.

gRPC leverages HTTP/2 underneath and benefits from many of the efficiencies of HTTP/2. Traffic Parrot supports gRPC. Traffic Parrot does not support HTTP/2 directly yet, please reach out to us to have a look at the HTTP/2 beta version.

Yes!

We focus on providing a tool for in-depth exploratory testing. We simulate common error messages as well as very specialized ones like slow dripping connections that can take down your application (depending on your environment). As far as we know, no other tool can simulate some of the error scenarios we simulate.

Yes!

Do you have an example scenario you would like to test? It would help us understand better how to answer your question. Please, send the details to support@trafficparrot.com.

Yes!

Have a look at the performance guide.

Yes! Have a look at Virtualizing identical URLs.

Have a look at filtering recording.

No, but we work with tools in your existing environment that schedule tests.

Traffic Parrot does not run tests. We integrate with open source solutions like Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, Postman and similar that do that. They are usually run in Jenkins or Team City, which is the industry standard. Those tools would run on a schedule with no issues. We would need to know more about your environment to understand better what problem you are trying to solve when asking this question. Please, send the details to support@trafficparrot.com.

Have a look at the Features and capabilities.

There are many components started by default by Traffic Parrot. This means it typically takes around 2-20 seconds depending on hardware specs for Traffic Parrot to start up. You can speed up the startup time by disabling some of them.

You can do that by disabling the GUI and gRPC warmup (see how to configure Traffic Parrot):

trafficparrot.gui.enabled=false
trafficparrot.virtualservice.grpc.server.warmup.on.startup=false

Have a look at the extensions.

Have a look at the loading CSV file data.

We listen to our customers wherever possible. Where do you think we should go?

If you would like more details, please email us at support@trafficparrot.com.

We provide many advanced service virtualization features. Have a look at the User guide and Extensions.

Just remember, the general rule is: keep them as simple as possible, whenever possible. For more details read Focus on keeping it simple.

Yes! Have a look at the example below. It is a sample Fircosoft mapping that will copy the request id from request bytes message to the response. Download the the byte message mapping, put them in trafficparrot-x-y-z/jms-mappings directory and follow the IBM MQ tutorial to learn how to replay IBM MQ JMS messages. Contact us for more details.

{
  "mappingId" : "bf6abc54-dac1-4aa3-af9e-6e551ed909eb",
  "request" : {
    "destination" : {
      "name" : "REQ.QL",
      "type" : "QUEUE"
    },
    "bodyMatcher" : {
      "matches" : "\u0001.*            E2  AG        unit                              374653764dfhfgg                                                       AccountH                                                    app               WMQIN                                                                                                                                                                                                                           \\[FIRCOSOFT     X\\] FMT V1.0 GEN CoreEngine 5.5.2.3\r\n\\[UNIT          X\\] UB\r\n\\[BUSINESS      X\\] BUSINESS\r\n\\[APPLI         X\\] UB\r\n\\[UUMID         X\\] \r\n\\[ReqMsgId       \\] 3746523dhf362635\r\n\\[MsgType        \\] AccountHandler\r\n\\[CustCode       \\] 345553322\r\n\\[Firstname      \\] Bob\r\n\\[Surname        \\] Smith\r\n\\[MiddleName     \\] John\r\n\\[MaidenName     \\] Smith\r\n\\[Nationlity     \\] Polish\r\n\\[Address1       \\] \r\n\\[Address2       \\] \r\n\\[Address3       \\] \r\n\\[Address4       \\] \r\n\\[CFIncorpPr     \\] \r\n\\[CFOriginPr     \\] Poland\r\n\\[CFCtyznsip     \\] \r\n\\[CFResidnce     \\] Poland\r\n\\[DOB            \\] 1990-07-10\r\n\\[PasprtORID     \\] AP124567890\r\n\\[CustCodeEt     \\] \r\n\\[EmplyrName     \\] \r\n\\[EmplyrAdd1     \\] \r\n\\[EmplyrAdd2     \\] \r\n\\[EmplyrAdd3     \\] \r\n\\[EmplyrAdd4     \\] \r\n\\[EmplyrAdd5     \\] \r\n\\[RegistrdNm     \\] \r\n\\[TradeName      \\] \r\n\\[RegistrdNb     \\] \r\n\\[CFIncorpEt     \\] \r\n\\[CFOriginEt     \\] \r\n\\[CFRsidncEt     \\] .*"
    },
    "bodyType" : "PRINTABLE_CHARACTERS",
    "jmsMessageType" : "javax.jms.BytesMessage"
  },
  "response" : {
    "destination" : {
      "name" : "RSP.QL",
      "type" : "QUEUE"
    },
    "jmsResponseTransformerClassName" : "NO_TRANSFORMER",
    "text" : "\u0001002ROOT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            {{regex request.body '.?([0-9A-Za-z]+Camel-[0-9]+).*'}}            E2  AG        unit                            app       001HITS                            Stop: 6, Nonblocking: 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Filter Engine                                                                                   DIN20161117140172-00000-2337                                    ",
    "bodyType" : "PRINTABLE_CHARACTERS",
    "jmsMessageType" : "javax.jms.BytesMessage"
  }
}

Typically this happens when Java is not installed or detected properly. You can download Java here.

If this does not solve your issue, please contact us for support.

Have a look at the User guide and the Quick start

Have look at the Supported platforms and the Proof of concept guide

Please see Running from Maven for the recommended solution.

We recently had a remote WebEx engagement with a Fortune 300 company where they had tools running tests on-site in 30 minutes.

One of our main differentiators to our competition is we make our tool as easy to use as possible requiring no to minimal amounts of training.

You can find the details What is the "concurrent floating license"? and How may licenses do I need to purchase for 10 users in a shared QA environment?. Please email us for more details sales@trafficparrot.com.

Traffic Parrot is priced based on the number of floating licenses and features, protocols and technologies used. Please confirm your requirements by answering the following questions and we will provide budgetary pricing. To get more details, please email sales@trafficparrot.com

You need to add your private key to Traffic Parrot JKS, for example:

$ cd trafficparrot-x.y.z/certificates
$ keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore /path/authclient.jks -srcalias authclient -destkeystore trafficparrot-keystore-and-truststore.jks -destalias authclient
$ keytool -keypasswd -alias authclient -keystore trafficparrot-keystore-and-truststore.jks

If you would like to connect Traffic Parrot to a MQ broker either via native MQ interfaces or JMS you will need to provide the MQ JARs. Have a look at how to do it for JMS and native MQ.

Traffic Parrot now supports matching of requests and responses by correlation id for JMS and IBM®MQ.

Find out more here.

Go to release notes and changelog.

How is your tool different to CA Lisa, DevTest, WireMock, Hovefly, Charles Proxy, Parasoft, etc.? See the tools comparison.

If you do not have a favourite editor we recommend using Notepad++ on Windows, Vim on Linux or Textmate on a Mac.

If you would like to define custom mappings see how to use extensions.

Currently, whenever you add a new custom Java or Handlebars extension, you need to update trafficparrot.properties and specify the class name. We know this is inconvenient. We have a task on the roadmap to eliminate the need to define those properties, and search for extensions automatically.

If you have any issues or suggestions email us at support@trafficparrot.com.

See running simultaneously.

2017-08-12 23:48:44 WARN  qtp1995250556-40 Error for /jmsManagement/start
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ibm/msg/client/jms/JmsFactoryFactory
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.IbmMq75ConnectionFactory.create(IbmMq75ConnectionFactory.java:25)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.ProducerConsumerFactory.createConsumer(ProducerConsumerFactory.java:46)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.QueueTrafficRecordService.startMessageConsumerAndProducer(QueueTrafficRecordService.java:57)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.QueueTrafficRecordService.start(QueueTrafficRecordService.java:44)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.JmsQueueVirtualService.startRecordingServices(JmsQueueVirtualService.java:80)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.JmsQueueVirtualService.startRecording(JmsQueueVirtualService.java:50)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.JmsManagementServlet.queue(JmsManagementServlet.java:388)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.JmsManagementServlet.start(JmsManagementServlet.java:297)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.JmsManagementServlet.post(JmsManagementServlet.java:92)
	at com.trafficparrot.jms.JmsManagementServlet.doPost(JmsManagementServlet.java:74)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:587)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:221)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.ibm.msg.client.jms.JmsFactoryFactory
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
	... 28 more

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Insufficient configured threads: required=212 < max=200 for QueuedThreadPool[qtp318353283]@12f9af83{STARTED,8<=168<=200,i=0,r=20,q=0}[ReservedThreadExecutor@71b3bc45{s=0/20,p=0}]