Presented at DocuSign Momentum DevCon 2015 in San Francisco by Neil Mansilla. During the presentation, I discussed a number of useful community tools for API testing/debugging, followed by several live demos of Runscope API testing and monitoring tools. For more information, or to try Runscope, visit https://www.runscope.com

1. Modern Tools for API
Testing, Debugging and
Monitoring
Neil Mansilla
Runscope

2. REST Client
Making any type of HTTP call (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) w/headers
Tool that is beyond browser’s GET, and friendlier than curl
* Hurl.it: web-based HTTP client
* Browser extension app (REST Client, Postman)

3. REST Client > Hurl.it (hurl.it)

4. Request Capture
Tool that captures all of the details for a request (URL, headers, body)
* RequestBin

5. Request Capture > RequestBin (requestb.in)

6. Traffic Capture
Tools for capturing HTTP traffic
* Fiddler
* Charles
* Many other network proxy tools
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7. Local Tunneling
Temporarily expose a localhost service/port on a public URL
* ngrok (ngrok.com for binaries, or find source on GitHub)
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8. Monitoring / Alerting
Automated monitoring and notifications when an endpoint/URL is down
* Pingdom: web site monitoring
* OpsGenie: notifications via SMS, smart phone push
* PagerDuty: notifications via email, SMS

9. Test Data / Mocks
Tools for creating sample stubbed data; mock endpoint responses
* json-generator.com: easy way to create complex sample data
* Mocky (mocky.io): create mock HTTP endpoints

10. Test Data / Mocks > JSON Generator (json-generator.com)

11. Test Data / Mocks > Mocky (mocky.io)

12. Runscope Community Tools (runscope.com/community)
Runscope manages/owns several of the API tools mentioned:

13. Runscope sponsored API related community projects:
Runscope Community Tools (runscope.com/community)

14. Solve API Problems Fast

15. Runscope: Powerful API Monitoring, Testing and Debugging
Feature / Task Runscope Solution
HTTP Client Runscope Request Editor
Advanced HTTP client with logging to Traffic Inspector
Request Capture Runscope Request Captures
Debug requests sent by your client apps or webhooks
Traffic Capture Runscope Traffic Inspector
Logs and indexes all traffic made from Request Editor, Captures, Runscope URL Helper,
Radar tests, Gateway Agent, Passageway, etc.
Local Tunneling Runscope Passageway
Temporarily share local web server on a public URL; all traffic logged to Traffic Inspector
Monitoring Runscope Radar
Automated testing without any programming required
Notifications Runscope Radar Integrations
Slack, PagerDuty, HipChat, OpsGenie, email, etc.

16. Runscope > Request Editor (link to docs)
1. Edit and launch request 2. Request details
3. Response details

17. { live demo }
Runscope > Request Editor (link to docs)

18. Runscope > Request Captures (link to docs)

19. { live demo }
Runscope > Request Captures (link to docs)

20. Runscope > Traffic Inspector (link to docs)
Above: log stream of all traffic with ability to introspect, search by keyword/attribute, edit/try, compare, share, etc.

21. { live demo }
Runscope > Traffic Inspector (link to docs)

22. Runscope > Radar (link to docs)
• Automated API testing
• Powerful test cases and assertions without any coding required
• Multiple global testing locations in the cloud
• Test endpoints on local host or behind firewall (Remote Radar Agent)
• Scheduled from one-minute to one-day intervals
• Trigger tests with URLs for continuous integration and deployment workflows
• All test runs stored in Traffic Inspector

23. Runscope > Radar (link to docs)
Above: overview page with snapshot of results/performance from latest tests.

24. Runscope > Radar (link to docs)
{ live demo }

25. Runscope > Radar Integrations (link to docs)
• Notifications / ChatOps
• Continuous integration/deployment,
build and hosting
• Reporting and analytics
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26. Thank you. Questions?
Neil Mansilla
Developer Relations, Runscope
Email: neil@runscope.com
Twitter: @mansillaDev
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