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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

Technical requirements

The code examples for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Writing-API-Tests-with-Karate/tree/main/chapter04.

You will also require the system and IDE setup we completed in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Karate Project.

Example project

For this chapter, we will use an example project called running-tests, which is created using the standard Karate Maven archetype as is. As opposed to before, this time, we will use all generated files as they demonstrate the different run possibilities well.

Let’s first check out some different ways we can run Karate tests straight from VS Code!