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API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A
- johns 13y agoWe're around if anyone has any questions
- donnfelker 13y agoCongrats!
- dubcanada 13y agoDoes their website say they support COBOL? Did I read that correctly?
- johns 13y agoIt does! We don't require special changes to your code so if you can change a hostname you can use our tools.
- Encosia 13y agoCongrats, John!
- tomblomfield 13y agoI'm afraid I can't see exactly how this is different to high-level acceptance tests running on an internal test suite? I would assert that the status is 200, the content-type is application/json, there are X number of keys present, the value of ID is an integer, datetime is in a specific format, etc etc. I'd love it if someone could clear this up! I'm sure there must be a difference.
- danenania 13y agoPerhaps their target customer is someone who isn't technical enough to code acceptance tests. The idea of a tool like cucumber is that it supposedly allows non-technical stakeholders to specify requirements in plain English that can then be used as tests, but in my experience, cucumber is still way too low-level for the vast majority of stakeholders. Developers invariably end up writing the cucumber tests, not clients or managers, at which point the DSL is just a pointless layer of abstraction. If you make acceptance testing doable through a friendly, non-technical UI instead of in code, it could bring the goals of cucumber a lot closer to the realm of reality.
- johns 13y agoIn addition to what danenania said, we also take the work out of running those tests continuously from an external source and integrating with third-party notification services (like PagerDuty). That's where we straddle the line between testing and monitoring.
- johns 13y agoEdit: I should also note that the press really likes the testing stuff, but it's half of what we do. Check out the Traffic Inspector as well: https://www.runscope.com/docs/debugging https://www.runscope.com/docs/debugging
- ______1 13y agoI read that as RuneScape.
- 100k 13y agoCongrats to John and the Runscope team! If you haven't tried their Request Bin service for testing webhooks, give it a try: http://requestb.in http://requestb.in
- dannyrosen 13y agoWe use Runscope at Sailthru and are huge fans of the service.
- johns 13y agoThanks Danny!