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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

Technical requirements

The code examples for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Writing-API-Tests-with-Karate/tree/main/chapter03.

You will require the following:

  • The system and IDE setup we completed in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Karate Project.
  • Postman (available via https://www.postman.com/downloads) for exploring the APIs we want to test later.
  • Please note that when you launch Postman after the installation, you don’t have to create a new account. Just skip this step by clicking on the highlighted link as follows, which is easy to overlook:
Figure 3.1 – Postman launch

Figure 3.1 – Postman launch

Let’s check out the API we will use in this chapter next!