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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

Finding and interacting with elements

So far, our example test just opens a website. To turn it into a real test, there are several ways to locate elements so that we can interact with them and validate the behavior of the application or web page. This is a crucial step toward simulating real user behavior in a browser test.

HTML and CSS

It is very helpful when working with locators to understand the basics of HTML and CSS. This knowledge makes it easier to target elements, understand their relationship, and retrieve information from them. As this book is mainly about API testing and this chapter gives only a limited insight into the world of UI testing, it is worth taking a closer look at these topics via other sources.

A nice little tutorial for both technologies can be found here: https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss.en.html.

In the following sections, we will see how to select locators and which locators are supported by Karate UI.

Understanding locators...