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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

Reporting and Logging

In the previous chapter, we learned about several ways to run tests, but we didn’t see the results of those tests in a representative and comprehensible way. Looking at the log outputs is a good way to analyze what’s going on during a test, but it’s not something we want to give to the non-technical people on the team to read.

We’ll start by looking at some ways to improve the readability of the logs, as this will make it easier for you, as a test developer, to find problems. In addition, Karate has great reporting features that can help us, as well as anyone interested in the test results, to better understand them and know exactly what is being tested.

In this chapter, we will cover these main topics:

  • Configuring log options
  • Using Karate’s built-in reports
  • Configuring third-party report libraries
  • Generating a Surefire report
  • Using JUnit report