HttpMaster Professional

The performance of your website can often become the difference between its success and failure. Thus testing your websites and application thoroughly on a host of parameters is a necessity and ideally the work should be done by specialized testing firms. However the cost related to testing can be prohibitive and this where a tool like HttpMaster Professional 2.1.0 comes to rescue. It offers you the chance to evaluate your web based applications, APIs etc under stimulated traffic conditions and resource intensive service request.

When you launch the HttpMaster Professional 2.1.0 you are greeted with a sleek interface that an average testing professional get familiarized within minutes. The interface has six primary tabs including dedicated ones for headers and validations. At first you need to create a project and then place a URL in its general properties. You can place the http method and type in request body. You can even choose the validation rules that you wish to apply. Using advanced project preferences you can choose the type of connection, say persistent, that you wish to maintain with the server. You can also request for data buffering and choose the option to decompress the data received from the server. The application can negotiate authenticated requests for data, however you would need to enter the credentials for the network. The extensive scope of options to evaluate the responses that this application provides comes in quite handy when you are looking to diagnose a performance issue. The application is extremely suitable for testing restful APIs in detail and it also offers you the scope to export the response data.

Overall the HttpMaster Professional 2.1.0 does a decent job of analyzing your web applications and owing to its well thought out features set and capacity to handle dynamic parameters, we mark it with a score of four and half rating stars.

HttpMaster is a development and test tool for REST web services and API applications. HttpMaster can display and validate the most common REST formats; XML, JSON, and HTML and also supports powerful dynamic parameters, response data validation expressions, flexible request chaining, and many other properties. All these core features, along with many other options, give HttpMaster capabilities for thorough web service and API testing.
HttpMaster project (hmpr file) exposes a large number of options to fine tune generated web requests, for example, to specify http method, values of http headers, URL encoding of parameters, global URL and query string values, redirections, content types, request encoding, and many more.
One of the more powerful features of HttpMaster is request chaining. It is a flexible mechanism to combine multiple requests in execution batches where every request uses some data from the previous request. This allows for complete automation of web application testing.
HttpMaster also supports definition of dynamic parameters which can be be used to simulate variations of input data or to create global values for reuse across multiple requests.
When executing web requests, HttpMaster allows you to monitor and review complete request and response data of each executed request. Response data can be validated using validation rules; if validation rules are defined for the request item, HttpMaster will asses particular execution as successful only if it passes complete validation rule.
When working with HttpMaster, you will use intuitive user interface with tabs, descriptive icons, 'quick help' buttons and integrated help file.