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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

Running Karate Tests

Now that we know the basics of writing new Karate tests, we will explore different ways to run them through both VS Code and Maven. We will look at how to choose a specific environment to run tests against. We will also get to know how to run only a subset of tests, as well as discovering ways to efficiently debug them to pinpoint and fix issues more quickly.

In this chapter, we will cover these main topics:

  • Running and debugging Karate tests through the IDE
  • Running tests with Maven
  • Running tests against different environments
  • Running specific tests
  • Filtering tests by tags