Real-world APIs and the networks used to communicate with them can fail in ways that can destabilise your application, and are hard to test.

WireMock Cloud supports responding to requests with four different fault types:

  • Server closes connection before response sent
  • Corrupt data sent, then connection closed
  • OK response sent, followed by corrupt data and connection close
  • Peer connection reset - SO_LINGER is set to 0 causing a non-graceful TCP connection termination.

These are configured per stub, so it is possible to respond to specific requests with a fault.

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Usage

Faults are configured when creating or editing a stub by selecting the Fault tab in the response and choosing the fault type: