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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

Part 2:Advanced Karate Functionalities

In this part, we will deepen and expand the knowledge from the first part. We will deal with headers and cookies, work with external files, and learn about JSONPath and XPath. After that, we will get to know different ways of realizing own functionality in Karate through JavaScript and Java. Karate tests are often used in build pipelines, so we’ll look in detail at how that works. Lastly, we will go through browser testing with the Karate UI and performance testing with Karate Gatling to cover these specialized aspects as well.

This section contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 6, More Advanced Karate Features
  • Chapter 7, Customizing and Optimizing Karate Tests
  • Chapter 8, Karate in Docker and CI/CD Pipelines
  • Chapter 9, Karate UI for Browser Testing
  • Chapter 10, Performance Testing with Karate Gatling