Writing API Tests with Karate

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Karate Basics

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Introducing Karate’s Core Concepts

Technical requirements

What makes Karate stand out?

Discovering Karate’s strong points

Core features

BDD versus Karate

What is BDD?

Glue code

The Karate way

Supported data types in Karate

JSON

GraphQL

XML

YAML

CSV

Other text-based formats

Binary formats

The JavaScript engine

Java interoperability

Summary

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Setting up Your Karate Project

Technical requirements

Installing Java

Setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable

Getting to know Karate standalone

Preparing the IDE

Setting up Visual Studio Code

Setting up IntelliJ IDEA

Importing the example project

Setting up Karate projects with Maven

What is Maven?

Installing Maven

Adding Maven to the PATH variable

Setting ...