🎯 Use cases

How Teams Use ProxyCeptor, by Role and Platform

Concrete workflows and copy-paste rules for QA engineers, frontend and backend developers, Smart TV and OTT teams, and security testers.

QA Engineers

ProxyCeptor for QA Engineers: Test Every API Failure Without Waiting on Backend

QA engineers use ProxyCeptor to create repeatable API scenarios, such as "checkout returns 503", "orders list is empty" or "profile loads in 8 seconds", as named rules they toggle in one click. Rules run in Chrome and on Smart TVs without certificates, sync across the QA team through a cloud workspace, and pair with session replay for bug reports.

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Frontend Developers

ProxyCeptor for Frontend Developers: Build Against APIs That Do Not Exist Yet

Frontend developers use ProxyCeptor to keep building when the API is missing, wrong or slow: mock a new endpoint from the agreed contract, deep-merge a flag into a live response, force error and loading states, or redirect production UI to a local backend. It works with any framework because it intercepts fetch and XHR at runtime, with no code or config changes.

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Smart TV & OTT Teams

ProxyCeptor for Smart TV and OTT Teams: Debug Tizen, webOS and Android TV Without Certificates

Smart TV and OTT teams use the ProxyCeptor SDK, a script loaded into the TV web app, to intercept and mock API calls on Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV WebViews and similar platforms without installing root certificates or configuring a Wi-Fi proxy. Rules are managed from the cloud dashboard and reach every test TV through a workspace API key.

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Security Testers

ProxyCeptor for Security Testers: A Lightweight In-Browser Interceptor Next to Burp

Security testers use ProxyCeptor as a lightweight companion to Burp Suite: persistent in-browser rules that swap object IDs, change roles in JSON responses, strip security headers or inject scripts, without routing traffic through a desktop proxy. For scanning, fuzzing and manual request repeating, Burp or ZAP remain the right tools.

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Backend & API Developers

ProxyCeptor for Backend and API Developers: Test Contract Changes Against the Real UI

Backend and API developers use ProxyCeptor to try a response change against the real frontend before deploying: deep-merge a new field, remove a deprecated one, or return a new error code, and watch the UI react. The same workspace includes Commander, a browser-based REST client, and a server-side forwarder for CORS-restricted calls.

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