This is the code repository for Writing API Tests with Karate, published by Packt.
Enhance your API testing for improved security and performance
Karate is an easy-to-use and powerful software testing framework with many different facets. In this book, you’ll learn about core concepts as well as advanced techniques that will enable you to test your software projects efficiently. By incorporating the Karate framework into your software development lifecycle, you’ll be able to enhance the robustness and reliability of your APIs and applications.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- 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
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter01.
The code will look like the following:
Package blog.softwaretester.gherkin;
import io.cucumber.java.en.Given;
import io.cucumber.java.en.Then;
import io.cucumber.java.en.When;
Following is what you need for this book: 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.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-10).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-10 | Java SDK | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Maven | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Karate Standalone | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Google Chrome | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | IntelliJ IDEA | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Visual Studio Code | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Postman | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | MySQL | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | phpMyAdmin | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Git | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| 1-10 | Docker | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Benjamin Bischoff decided in 2017 to make test automation his main career after being a full-time developer for 15 years. He works as a test automation engineer in Trivago's product foundation backend QA team, where his focus lies on backend, API, and database automation, as well as build and test pipelines. Prior to that, he took care of frontend automation and the development and maintenance of Trivago's in-house end-to-end test framework. Benjamin is the author and maintainer of two open source projects for Cucumber BDD parallel test execution and reporting. He is also a conference speaker and writes about testing and automation topics on his website, https://www.softwaretester.blog.