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helpscout/specter
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JSON API Mocking and Testing for PHP

0.5(8y ago)19589MITPHP ^7.0

Since May 9Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/helpscout/specter-php)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/helpscout/specter)[ RSS](/packages/helpscout-specter/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~73 days

Recently: every ~34 days

Total

8

Last Release

3141d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.2PHP >=5.5

0.4PHP ^7.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2a560935372705d52a621836e7bee49a6d6576c646bc87feb4c7832baf9e8fc0?d=identicon)[helpscout](/maintainers/helpscout)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef78f0ca3100de38d3af37b825048ff460685d9aa49ff866e3d6fe6b248eaef9?d=identicon)[there4](/maintainers/there4)

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Top Contributors

[![craig-davis](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9907304?v=4)](https://github.com/craig-davis "craig-davis (62 commits)")[![bkuhl](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/524933?v=4)](https://github.com/bkuhl "bkuhl (1 commits)")

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Tags

middlewarelaravelFixturepsr7illuminateHelp Scout

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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