All about Mocking, with Wiremock's Tom Akehurst

About this episode

Tom Akehurst from Wiremock discusses the evolution and strategies of mocking in API development.

Mocking is one of those things that started out as a simple idea, and has evolved to support an incredible amount of developer use cases over the years. In this episode of the Podcast, Tom from Wiremock chats with Phil about what mocking is, strategies for not littering OpenAPI doc with mocking details, and ways to keep api dev teams empowered by mocking, instead of hampered by it. Wiremock on BlueSky @wiremock.bsky.social on Mastodon @fosstodon/wiremock on GitHub @wiremock/wiremock Creators & Guests Phil Sturgeon - Host Tom Akehurst - Guest Click here to view the episode transcript.

People in this episode

Host: Phil Sturgeon

Guest: Tom Akehurst

Topics covered

• mocking
• API development
• OpenAPI
• developer strategies
• Wiremock

Keywords

• mocking
• API
• Wiremock
• OpenAPI
• developer use cases

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wiremock

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