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Writing API Tests with Karate

You're reading from   Writing API Tests with Karate Enhance your API testing for improved security and performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638260
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Karate Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Karate’s Core Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting up Your Karate Project 4. Chapter 3: Writing Basic Karate Tests 5. Chapter 4: Running Karate Tests 6. Chapter 5: Reporting and Logging 7. Part 2:Advanced Karate Functionalities
8. Chapter 6: More Advanced Karate Features 9. Chapter 7: Customizing and Optimizing Karate Tests 10. Chapter 8: Karate in Docker and CI/CD pipelines 11. Chapter 9: Karate UI for Browser Testing 12. Chapter 10: Performance Testing with Karate Gatling 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using assertions and matchers on the response

So far, we are not really doing any testing concerning the returned data but only the status code. To fulfill the title of our scenario (Checking user-specific posts), we must add at least one other step with an assertion so this can be a real test.

JSON examples

All examples in this chapter apply to JSON data since this is the most common REST API request-and-response format. For XML-based APIs, the shown approaches are almost identical. More on working with matchers on XML data can be found here: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate#xpath-functions.

From our API exploration and its documentation, we know that the endpoint in use returns a list of posts where each one has a userId that should be equal to the one that we pass via the request parameter. Additionally, it has an id that can identify each post, title, and body. The following is an example structure of a posts resource:

{
    "userId&quot...
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