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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Gherkin files have the .feature extension and always start with a Feature: line followed by a description.”

A block of code is set as follows:

Package blog.softwaretester.gherkin;
import io.cucumber.java.en.Given;
import io.cucumber.java.en.Then;
import io.cucumber.java.en.When;

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

public class StepDefinitions {    @Given("I am on the Web shop homepage")
    public void goToHomepage() {        System.out.println("Go to homepage");    }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

java -cp C:\Users\bbischoff\Desktop\karate-1.2.1.RC1\karate.jar com.intuit.karate.Main

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “To trigger one of the saved requests, click Send.”

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