Automock Automated Mock Backend Generation for JavaScript based Applications

Modern web development is an intensely collaborative process. Frontend Developers, Backend Developers and Quality Assurance Engineers are integral cogs of a development machine. Frontend developers constantly juggle developing new features, fixing bugs and writing good unit test cases. Achieving this is sometimes difficult as frontend developers are not able to utilize their time completely. They have to wait for the backend to be ready and wait for pages to load during iterations. This paper proposes an approach that enables frontend developers to quickly generate a mock backend that behaves exactly like their actual backend. This generated mock backend minimizes the dependency between frontend developers and backend developers, since both the teams can now utilize the entire sprint duration efficiently. The approach also aids the frontend developer to perform quicker iterations and modifications to his or her code.