Traffic Parrot

Traffic Parrot is an API and service simulation software developed by Traffic Parrot Ltd. According to the vendor, it is designed to assist software development and testing teams in creating API and service simulators, virtual services, and API mocks. The product is aimed at small to large enterprises, including those in the software development, quality assurance, DevOps, IT consulting, and financial services industries.

Key Features

API and Service Simulation Software: According to the vendor, Traffic Parrot allows software development and testing teams to create API and service simulators, virtual services, and API mocks for backend and third-party dependencies. It claims to support various technologies such as HTTP (REST/SOAP), gRPC, and more.

Sandbox Environments: The software provides ready-made API or service simulators that can act as sandbox environments for external third-party or Internet APIs and services. This feature is said to offload the burden of creating mocks or simulators in-house for development and testing teams.

Consulting Services: Traffic Parrot offers consulting services to assist teams in learning how to use service virtualization and API mocking to meet their business goals. According to the vendor, these services can help accelerate delivery, improve quality, reduce time-to-market, and unblock testers and developers waiting for APIs or services.

Supports Centralized and Distributed Architectures: The vendor states that Traffic Parrot seamlessly fits into both centralized monolithic and distributed microservice architectures, making it suitable for teams regardless of their system's architecture.

Wide Technology Support: According to the vendor, the software supports various technologies, including HTTP (REST/SOAP), gRPC, and other popular technologies. This ensures compatibility with a wide range of systems and services.

Accelerates Delivery: By enabling the creation of API and service simulators, Traffic Parrot is claimed to help accelerate delivery by unblocking testers and developers who would otherwise be waiting for APIs or services to be available.

Improves Quality: According to the vendor, Traffic Parrot assists in reproducing production bugs easier and faster by offering the ability to create virtual services and API mocks. This is said to contribute to improved software quality.

Reduces Time-to-Market: The vendor claims that Traffic Parrot helps reduce time-to-market for software products and services by reducing the dependency on external APIs and services.

Adoption of Automated Testing: According to the vendor, Traffic Parrot aids in the adoption of automated testing by providing the necessary tools and features to create API and service simulators. This is said to facilitate the creation of comprehensive test suites.