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Version: 1.0.0

How Keploy Works? (v1.0.0)​

Keploy is added as a middleware to your application that captures and replays all network interaction served to application from any source.

Step 1 : Record Unique Network Interactions as Test Case​

Once you start the application in record mode to capture API calls as test cases.

export KEPLOY_MODE="record"

Now, when the application serves an API, all the unique network interactions are stored within Keploy server as a test-case.

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Step 2 : Replay Test-Cases​

Let's say you developed new application version(v2). To test locally, start the application after setting Keploy SDK mode to test mode to replay all recorded API calls/test cases.

export KEPLOY_MODE="test"

Now, when the application starts:

  • Keploy will download all the previously recorded test-cases/API calls with a 5 sec delay(configurable application build time).
  • When the application will try to talk to any dependencies like DBs, Routers, vendor services, Keploy will intercept and provide the previously recorded dependency response.

Note: You didn't need to setup test-environment here. 🙅🏻‍♀️

  • Keploy will compare the API response to the previously captured response and a report will be generated on the Keploy console.

You can test with Keploy locally or can integrate Keploy with popular testing-frameworks and existing CI pipelines.

Note: You can generate test cases from any environment which has all the infrastructure dependencies setup. Please consider using this to generate tests from low-traffic environments first. The deduplication feature necessary for high-traffic environments is currently experimental.

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