Writing API Tests with Karate: Enhance your API testing for improved security and performance

Unlock the full potential of Karate with this comprehensive guide to effortlessly setup, write, run, optimize, and report test results

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Key Features

Explore the capabilities of the Karate framework for effective software testing
Learn how to integrate Karate tests into projects and CI/CD pipelines
Explore lesser-known Karate modules such as Karate UI and Karate Gatling

Book Description

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.
What you will learn

Understand the basic concepts of Karate and its functionality
Integrate and use it effectively to solve your testing needs
Extend Karate and customize its functionality for your use cases
Explore different testing methods and their use cases
Run your tests to check the software development lifecycle
Get to know more about Karate's UI and performance test approaches

Who this book is for

This book is for QA engineers and developers who are familiar with APIs and want to make them safer and more secure by applying automated tests with the help of a lightweight and modern framework - Karate.
Table of Contents

Karate's core concepts
Setting up your Karate project
Writing Karate tests
Running Karate Tests
Reporting and logging
More advanced Karate features
Extending Karate
Karate in Docker and CI/CD pipelines
Karate UI for browser testing
Performance testing with Karate Gatling