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Writing API Tests with Karate

By : Benjamin Bischoff
Book Image

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

Performance Testing with Karate Gatling

So far, we have seen a lot of different aspects of Karate API testing, including browser testing. In this chapter, we will explore yet another kind of testing that Karate offers – performance testing. We will use a simple Karate scenario and walk through the necessary steps to run it as a performance test. Also, we will look at logs and test reports to understand more about these types of testing and the conclusions we can draw from these.

In this chapter, we will cover these main topics:

  • What is Gatling?
  • Setting up Karate Gatling
  • Running Karate tests as performance tests
  • Checking out Gatling reports