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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 talked about why the Karate framework was developed and the many features and possibilities it has that help write expressive yet simple test cases. Additionally, we learned about the keywords and structure of Gherkin files and explored why Karate adapted this language but not the BDD standard itself.

In Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Karate Project, we will look at how to set up the development environment to be fit for Karate and the various ways to start a new Karate project from scratch using Karate standalone and Maven.

You will learn step-by-step how to configure the necessary environment and IDE plugins to streamline your development experience and make testing fun. Also, we will look at some unique features that are only available in the Karate plugins for Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA.