Wilma (software)

Situations when Wilma helps

• In case there is component that communicates to other components but need to be tested without the availability of other components, Wilma can act as stub. The environment can be - among others - a local development environment, a CI test environment, or an integration test environment
• In similar case, if some of the components are available but some not, Wilma can stub the missing ones, meanwhile proxying the request to the available components
• If there is a new feature in a 3rd party component/service, that will be developed later, and not yet available, and if the interface is defined, Wilma can emulate the new feature of the 3rd party component/service, and the feature in the owned component can be developed without waiting for the implementation of the feature in the 3rd party component/service
• It is possible to emulate special behavior of 3rd party components/services like: timeouts, slow or bad answers, special - error-nous - answers and error codes - without doing special test environment setup changes, and even if forcing the 3rd party component/service to produce such special answers would be hard/impossible
• It is possible to substitute both the request and the response messages real-time, partially and/or completely.
• Also - as it can log the messages - it helps testers/developers in troubleshooting, since the logged messages can be analysed - also such recorded messages can be used later as base of stub responses

  Main capabilities

• Used for HTTP and HTTPS communication channels, including 2-way SSL connections.
• Any message types and contents can be used: HTML, XML, SOAP, JSON, REST, etc.
• Messages can be altered on-the-fly
• Highly configurable, on-the-fly, both via its UI and API
• Suitable for both automated and manual tests
• By using the provided interfaces, product/project specific expansions can easily be added to the tool
• Expandable via plug-ins
• Docker images are available