Getting to know Karate standalone

Karate standalone is a single Java JAR file that contains all parts of the framework. It can be executed on the command line and just needs Java installed. This makes it possible to check out its capabilities without having to install an IDE.

Another interesting use case is its ability to spin up a mock server. We will see more about this in Chapter 6, More Advanced Karate Features.

Karate standalone as a test runner

The standalone version can be used within Visual Studio Code to run tests directly from the IDE. We will not use it for this purpose, though, as we will deal with a more real-world setup throughout the following chapters.

Downloading Karate standalone

The Karate Standalone download is available on the Karate releases GitHub site: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate/releases

Make sure you download the ZIP Release option, which can be found under the latest Karate version (the release candidate versions marked with RC...