Front-end data mocks: making them effective and desired

During web-project testing sooner or later you start to think about mocking the data that goes to front-end. Sometimes this is what manual testing needs, sometimes it is a test automation requirement, and every once in a while that’s what front-end developers want. In this talk I will discuss a variety of tasks that can be solved by convenient mock system. How it affects the developing cycle and speeds up the project development. I will cover different implementations and tell you how we ended up with our own personal favourite – one that makes data modification not just a technical possibility, but a must have tool that is used daily by the whole team. From the beginning to the end: why mock your data, what approaches exist, implementation details of different components and how it affects the project.