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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 looked at some different ways to run Karate tests, both from inside and outside the IDE. Also, we learned how to debug tests to find bugs early on. We took closer looks at running tests via Maven, how to parallelize tests to save time, and checked out various ways of running only a specific subset of tests using line numbers and tags.

In Chapter 5, Reporting and Logging, we will look at Karate’s reporting, how to configure it, and explore how it can help the different stakeholders to make the most of the test results.

Later on in Chapter 8, Karate in Docker and CI/CD Pipelines, we will revisit the topic of running Karate tests and look at how we can run Karate in these environments.