Chapter 2. Taking mountebank for a test drive
This chapter covers
- Understanding how mountebank virtualizes HTTP
- Installing and running mountebank
- Exploring mountebank on the command line
- Using mountebank in an automated test
In trying to do for pet supplies what Amazon did for books, Pets.com became one of the most spectacular failures of the dot-com bust that occurred around the turn of the millennium. On the surface, the company had everything it needed to be successful, including a brilliant marketing campaign that featured a famous sock puppet. Yet it flamed out from IPO to liquidation in under a year, becoming synonymous with the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the process.
Business-minded folk claim that Pets.com failed because no market existed for ordering pet supplies over the internet. Or it failed because of the lack of a viable business plan...or maybe because the company sold products for less than it cost to buy and distribute them. But as technologists, we know better.