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API Testing an Application with Karate

by Nertil Poci

This course will teach you how to test your API’s using Karate, a user-friendly, open-source framework for API testing that simplifies the validation of RESTful APIs with its expressive syntax and comprehensive features.

What you'll learn

In this course, API Testing an Application with Karate, you’ll learn how to test APIs using the Karate Framework. First, you'll start by setting up your environment for your API and the Karate framework. Next, you'll learn how to create basic test cases for the API endpoints for testing response results as well as error handling. After you have created some basic tests, you'll learn how to create data driven tests for more advanced testing scenarios as well as perform database validation to check the integrity of the data after performing requests. Then, you’ll learn how to integrate Karate with your CI/CD pipelines for automated testing on each build of the API. Finally, you’ll learn some of the best practices for creating test suites using the Karate Framework, how to handle test data properly, implement logging, documentation, and versioning for your tests. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Karate to test APIs using the Karate framework.

About the author

Nertil is a freelance software architect working with different companies around the globe to help them bring their products to market. He has a master’s degree in computer science with a focus in software architecture. One of his main passions is discovering new tools and libraries that exists out there. Knowing what tools are available building apps much easier and gives you the confidence you need when challenging task comes along. Nertil enjoys building practical open source apps in his spar... more

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