Network Mocking
This is an experimental feature. It is not yet supported by Maestro Cloud and breaking changes might be introduced as we work on it.
Network Mocking feature allows you to replace part or all of the network traffic coming from your app with static predefined content in order to get more predictable test results.
For example, if you application loads a news feed, Network Mocking would allow you to predefine what news articles will show up exactly in what order so that you can reliably test your view elements.
Network Mocking is an advanced concept and requires setup before using it for the first time. The process differs based on the operating system.
Here are key facts about Maestro Network Mocking:
- Network Mocking works on a concept of rules.
- A rule describes what HTTP(s) requests to incercept and what to reply back.
- Rules are defined in YAML files. Single YAML file can contain multiple rules.
- Rule files can be stored in a folder/subfolders and are traversed recursively.
- Network requests that did not match any rule will continue to their real destination as if there was no mocking in place.
Here is the simplest example of a rule that will match a
GET call to https://example.com and will reply with Hello Maestro instead of the usual https://example.com page:- path: https://example.com # Request URL to match. Can be a regular expression.
method: GET # (optional) GET is a default method
response:
status: 200 # (optional) 200 is a default value
body: "Hello World"
Let's assume that this file is saved under
rules/myRule.yaml file. Assuming that you already went through the initial Setup, the rules can then be used in Maestro flow:appId: my.app
---
- mockNetwork: rules # Points to a folder with rules
- launchApp
Anything past
mockNetwork command will now rely on the mocked network responses.It might not be very convenient to re-run the whole test each time a rule changes. To assist with development, you can use the following helper commands
replay command is very similar to mockNetwork except that it allows to mock the network without actually running a test. This is handy in cases where you want to manually interact with the app while working on rules.maestro network replay {folder with rules}
record command records all the traffic from your app and stores it as rules on a disk. Though replays produced by the command might require some manual tweaking in order to work (i.e. replacing undeterministic URL parameters with regular expressions), it is a great way for exploring the HTTP(s) traffic emitted by your app.maestro network record {output folder to store rules in}
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