Writing Basic Karate Tests

Now that we have completed the system preparation and IDE setup in the last chapter, we can directly dive into the main topic: writing Karate API tests.

Apart from the basic Karate commands and structure, we will also take a closer look at how to make test scenarios easier to read and more straightforward. When you have dozens or hundreds of scenarios, it is especially beneficial to make them as readable and understandable as possible, so you don’t have to think too much about what a scenario does and how the data looks.

In this chapter, we will cover these main topics:

• Exploring the API under test
• Calling endpoints and setting parameters
• Matching status codes and responses
• Making requests with payloads
• Using variables and data tables