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Writing API Tests with Karate

By : Benjamin Bischoff
Book Image

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

Using different configuration and run options

In Chapter 4, Running Karate Tests, we already discovered a lot of ways to trigger and execute tests both from the IDE and from the command line via Maven. Karate itself has some more interesting options that can be put to good use to make sure we are running tests exactly how we want. In the next sections, we will explore some of the most important ones.

Using the karate object for configuration and execution

We have already come across the karate object in the earlier chapters, most notably in Chapter 5, Reporting and Logging. Here, we used it to apply a few reporting options to all scenarios directly from karate-config.js. This was done using the karate.configure method with specific keys and values. An example was the option to suppress print statements in the logs:

karate.configure("printEnabled", false);

Also, we came across the karate object earlier when doing things such as setting the environment with karate...