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Writing API Tests with Karate

By : Benjamin Bischoff
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Writing API Tests with Karate

By: Benjamin Bischoff

Overview of this book

Software in recent years is moving away from centralized systems and monoliths to smaller, scalable components that communicate with each other through APIs. Testing these communication interfaces is becoming increasingly important to ensure the security, performance, and extensibility of the software. A powerful tool to achieve safe and robust applications is Karate, an easy-to-use, and powerful software testing framework. In this book, you’ll work with different modules of karate to get tailored solutions for modern test challenges. You’ll be exploring interface testing, UI testing as well as performance testing. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use the Karate framework in your software development lifecycle to make your APIs and applications robust and trustworthy.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1:Karate Basics
7
Part 2:Advanced Karate Functionalities

Technical requirements

The code examples for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Writing-API-Tests-with-Karate/tree/main/chapter08. We will use this project as well as its GitHub repository for demonstration purposes in this chapter. This project is a clone of the database example from Chapter 7, as this illustrates some concepts that will be important in a while.

You will require the following:

  • The system and integrated development environment (IDE) setup we completed in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Karate Project.
  • Git for accessing Git resources and using the GitBash shell in Windows. It can be downloaded for all operating systems (OSs) at https://git-scm.com/downloads.
  • An optional GitHub user account to play with workflows. You can sign up using the https://github.com/signup URL.

Optionally, you can install Docker Desktop to run Docker on your local system. It can be downloaded and configured here: https://www.docker.com/get-started...