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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how to write performance tests using Karate and Gatling. We covered how to set up a Maven project using profiles so that we can use Karate tests together with Gatling simulations. Finally, we looked at the logs and reports that are generated in these test runs and what insights they can give us.

I hope this chapter has made clear what the combination of Gatling and Karate can do for us. Karate tests typically test the functionality of APIs, whereas Gatling covers the so-called non-functional test cases that are important for the user experience and stability, such as response times, resilience, and data transfer. It can also tell us how much load an application can handle and where performance adjustments need to be made in a system.

This concludes our journey through the world of Karate tests. I hope you were able to learn a few things and apply what you learned to your own projects. As I said before, it is impossible to cover all facets...