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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 saw how we can implement Karate hooks to react to events and add custom code. In the same vein, we integrated Java code into Karate scenarios so that we can use its power when we need it. Also, we explored different options for keeping your tests concise and compact using mechanisms such as code reuse, calling other scenarios, and data-driven tests.

In Chapter 8, Karate in Docker and CI/CD Pipelines, we will look at different approaches to run Karate on build servers so that tests can be integrated within the real software development life cycle.