Location: Singapore
Remote: Hybrid or in-office
Willing to relocate: Unlikely
Technologies: C#, F#, AvaloniaUI, WPF, .NET 6/7/8, ASP.NETCore
Github: https://github.com/namigop?tab=repositories
Email: [email protected]
Very experienced in .NET. Held various roles over the years. I have been Software Architect, Head of Software and now in a Senior Engineering Manager role
So at work we have bunch services that were developed over several years. Developers have come and gone but the services remained. We have SOAP, WCF, REST and gRPC services! Nowadays, most development is done with either REST and gRPC - the WCF ones get a small bug fix every now and then. Doing QA testing on these services can get a bit challenging especially since each service is tested using a different tool. Developers and testers have to learn how to use each tool, and its quirks. Juggling back and forth can get trying at times.
I figured what if I build a single tool that can support all these services? One tool that can support many different type of services and has a consistent UI/UX. So, that's how FINT got started. I dont know if the name is memorable enough though (naming is hard). I simply took the first letters of my wife and kids names.
FINT currently supports gRPC and REST. WCF support is currently being developed. I should have that out by end of October. My plan is to also support GraphQL, SignalR, OData, REST (w OpenAPI/Swagger code gen)
I am working on FINT, a gRPC test client that combines functional testing and performance testing in a single application. Been doing this for over a year and the software now has an extensive list of features.
About me : I'm one of those managers who write code. I currently lead a team of 10 developers. In my spare time I've built Wcfstorm, WcfStorm.REST, WcfStorm.Server and Tresi. Please see http://www.wcfstorm.com
{ Full disclosure, I'm the author of WCFStorm.Rest }
If you're on Windows and is looking for an alternative, check out wcfstorm.rest (http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx). It has a lot features similar to postman and adds some more, like saving requests and responses into functional test cases which includes a showing a graphical "diff" between the actual and expected responses as well as being to define custom validation rules that is executed against the http response. It can also do a single load test as well a distributed load test using several machines (http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/how-to--distributed-performance-...)
WcfStorm.Rest is a paid software but it has a LITE version which is available for free and works well for ad-hoc testing and exploring REST API endpoints.
I started wcfstorm (http://www.wcfstorm.com) about 4 years ago. I started out with just 1 product and has now added 2 more. The income is pretty nice. It usually exceeds my monthly salary. I love it when some stackoverflow users recommend it to others when a question gets posted about WCF testing.
Shameless plug, I wrote a commercial desktop app (with a free version of course) for REST Testing, called WcfStorm.Rest. If anyone needs to manage test cases, perf test and generate test reports, please have a look at my software. http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/Data/Sites/1/WcfStormImages/REST...
This is what I did with WcfStorm.Server and WcfStorm.Rest (http://www.wcfstorm.com). The UI layer was written in C#; all other layers in F#. Switching back and forth though between an OO and an FP language (at least from my experience) is not that easy. There were a few instances where I ended up writing a class with mutable properties in F# simply because I didnt want to break my chain of thought so that I can get a feature out quickly
I started http://www.wcfstorm.com about 3 years ago. Been working on it on weekdays and weeknights and am now up to my 3rd product WcfStorm.Rest (a desktop-based REST test client)
It's been pretty good so far. WCFStorm (the WCF client) is fairly well known and WcfStorm.Rest is now starting to get some sales.
Thank you for the feedback and for the links. The one about building documentation around WCF contracts is very interesting.
Regarding WCFStorm, it has several features that are not in the built-in WCFTestClient such as (1) Save requests and responses and organize it into a "project", (2) Performance testing, (3) An object editor similar to WCFTestClient but with support for more types and others. http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more.aspx
Regarding WCFStorm.Rest, it does have similarities with POSTMan (and other clients). I'm not very familiar with POSTMan but the list of features for WCFSTorm.Rest is here http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx
We have several clients for whom we are building APIs using WCF. We would buy a plug-and-play WCF extension that could provide a customisable developer's playground to test the API.
I will try your WCFStorm trial product when I pick up the next WCF development project.
