Book Image

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

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about the basics of writing Karate API tests using different HTTP verbs and checks for status codes, content types, and various response matchers. Also, we checked out some ways to define payloads leading to a better understanding of our test scenarios.

In Chapter 4, Running Karate Tests, we will look at the various ways to run Karate tests, both from the IDE as well as from Maven. Also, we will check out some of the very helpful features of the Karate Runner VS Code plugin, which can be used to run and debug tests.