Greg, On 13 September 2015 at 16:48, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, in recent months I've been doing lots of REST call testing. I use the > scratchpad of Fiddler to select and send some request lines, then look at > the traffic in the inspector panes. The trouble is that my scratchpad is > getting longer than a Thomas Pynchon novel, so I was wondering if others > here have favourite techniques or tools for doing this sort of "playaround" > REST testing, perhaps with a better way or organising your scripts -- GK
My favourits to "play" with a web service are Curl [1] and Wireshark [2]. Proper testing deserves code. Curl is a lingua franca of online REST service API documentation - I often see example calls given as Curl invocations. Curl is a cross- platform command-line tool so it composes very well with scripts. These may also work better with your VCS than the Fiddler scratchpad (I don't use Fiddler so I wouldn't know). You can also give those Curl commands to your JavaScript front-end team on Mac and they should know what to do with them. [1] http://curl.haxx.se [2] https://www.wireshark.org -- Thomas Koster
