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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

Generating a Surefire report

By default, Surefire, the Maven plugin running our unit tests, generates an XML summary that can be used in CI/CD pipeline projects or by specific report generators. Let’s take a quick look at the format, how to control it, and how to generate a report from it via Maven.

Surefire XML

More files are written by Karate, and these can be found in the target/surefire-reports directory:

  • The reporting.Run.txt file contains a summary of the test run, such as this:
    ------------------------------------------------------
    Test set: reporting.Run
    ------------------------------------------------------
    Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 5.782 s <<< FAILURE! - in reporting.Run
    testParallel  Time elapsed: 5.751 s  <<< FAILURE!
    org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError:
    status code was: 404, expected: 200, response time in milliseconds: 261, url: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/this_is_wrong...