Mock API Use Cases

Simulate Scenarios

In lower environments, such as Development environment, uncovering API and API based integration limitations is often not possible due to the lack of quality and volume of data.

New problems are encountered when the API is promoted to environments where Production grade data is available. Then there are some problems that are only encountered in Live/Production Systems.

API Consumer applications either aren't prepared to handle errors or capture too little information when they encounter unexpected problems.

This results in costly defect analysis, disrupts active development, delays deliverables and breaks team's momentum.

Simulation features included in our mock server help development teams easily create scenarios beyond the happy path. Handle and process expected and unexpected scenarios and make your application more robust from the beginning.

Reduce Complexity

Testing changes in a large and integrated System is complex. It is sometimes more expensive to test the code changes than the change itself.

if internal or external APIs are making it expensive to test changes to your System then consider using ApiOnCloud's mocking server for simulating your real REST APIs. Simulated APIs can feed the exact data your application is expecting, allowing the control to reach the exact component that you want to test. Save valuable time it takes to setup complex test scenarios and speed-up your testing and code delivery.

API Under Development

If your application needs to consume a REST API which is still under development then mock APIs hosted on ApiOnCloud can serve the data to your client applications until the real REST API is developed and supply the needed the data to client applications.

Developers of REST APIs can setup mock APIs to unblock developers waiting to call those REST APIs. This way the teams can parallelize the development of API and the applications that will consume those APIs.

Setting up a new mock API running on ApionCloud platform is quick and easy.

Reduce Disruptions to Development

Developing against a development environment can be unpredictable. The API that is to be consumed may become unresponsive at an inopportune moment causing disruption to the development process.

Work-around such disruptions by developing with a simulated (mock) API instead. ApiOnCloud's mock server can respond to client application requests and return data to client applications and keep your development or testing process moving along when your environment is unresponsive, unstable or unavailable.

Product Demonstrations

End-to-End product demonstrations to Team Members, Leadership and Clients require careful planning and coordination. A change in the state of the environment, outage or simply running into an unexpected situation can derail a demo session quickly.

Utilizing a REST API mocking server can keep API responses predictable, eliminating some of the uncertainities involved in demonstrating large, heavily integrated systems.

Publish APIs without Coding

Developing and hosting REST APIs online is an involved process. If you are looking to serve data via REST APIs and your data does not change frequently then consider using ApiOnCloud for hosting your APIs without writing any code and dealing with deployment procedures.

You can create and publish your APIs in minutes, every API will get a publically accessible URL that can be used to retrieve the hosted data.

Provide Sample Data to Your API Consumers

Sharing API specifications is great, but would functioning APIs be even better? How about a sandbox environment hosting a simulated version of your real REST APIs?

You can host simulated version of your APIs on ApiOnCloud.com. Developers within or outside your organization can explore sample data and learn to interact with your APIs in a sandbox environment instead of your real environment. Providing a sandbox environment could be a useful strategy for helping your clients understand the sequence and relationships between your API endpoints.

Find failure points with built-in Automated Tests

What if an API response doesn't include one or more of the required fields? What if the required fields are empty or just empty space? What if the fields have NULL as their value?

ApiOnCloud's mock server comes with built-in automated tests to simulate common data issues encountered when working with REST APIs. All it takes is a click of a button and start testing the impact of data issues on the stability of your API driven applications.

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