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

Bischoff, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1837638268 ISBN 13: 9781837638260

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

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

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

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

1. Karate's core concepts
2. Setting up your Karate project
3. Writing Karate tests
4. Running Karate Tests
5. Reporting and logging
6. More advanced Karate features
7. Extending Karate
8. Karate in Docker and CI/CD pipelines
9. Karate UI for browser testing
10. Performance testing with Karate Gatling

About this title

About the Author

After being a game/application developer and trainer for 15 years, Benjamin decided in 2017 to make test automation his main career. Currently, he works as a Test Automation Engineer (SDET) in trivago's core QA team. His focus lies on the development and maintenance of trivago’s in-house end-to-end test framework and related build pipelines as well as developing back-end and API automation solutions. Benjamin is the author and maintainer of two open source projects for Cucumber BDD parallel test execution and reporting. Also, he is a conference speaker and writes about testing and automation topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837638268
• ISBN 13: 9781837638260
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326