Thursday, 24 July 2025

How to Mock APIs 10x Faster Using AI Chatbots

In our latest tutorial, we create a dynamic mock that returns different responses based on the day of the week. What typically takes 20 minutes of documentation diving, AI completes helps us complete in under 2 minutes.


Quick Tips for Success

Choose the Right Model
  • Paid models (Claude Opus 4, ChatGPT 4.5) = first-try success
  • Free models = expect 2-3 iterations

Write Better Prompts

  • Be specific about your requirements
  • Describe expected behavior clearly

Beyond Basic Mocks

  • Use AI for complex troubleshooting
  • Validate your debugging approach
  • Discover diagnostic steps you might have missed

Get Started Today

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Sunday, 20 July 2025

Traffic Parrot 5.54.2 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.54.2. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

  • Added Composite scenario support for HTTP virtual services, allowing you to combine mappings from multiple scenarios into a single active scenario
  • Added URL rewriting support during HTTP recording via the trafficparrot.http.recording.rewrite.regex property to automatically transform URLs in response bodies
  • Added RequestToPdf response transformer for generating PDF files from request bodies in test environments
  • Added support for Brotli compression decoding during HTTP recording

Fixes

  • Fixed a UI mapping list rendering issue seen on some browsers
  • Fixed tooltip display issues in the web interface
  • Library upgrades to fix OWASP issues

Changes

  • Upgraded bundled JRE from 21.0.6 to 21.0.7