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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

Calling endpoints and setting parameters

In this section, we will learn more about calling common endpoints and setting parameters.

Setting a URL

Let’s discuss the basic operation that every Karate API test starts with – calling a specific URL. This is achieved using the url keyword. Since this is our initial condition, we can use the Given keyword here:

Scenario: Checking user specific posts
    Given url 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?userId=1'

It is important to put the URL in quotes – otherwise, you will get an error. This is due to how Karate parses the steps using regular expressions, as we saw in Chapter 1. Also, it must be in the same line as Given url; it just did not fit here due to the limitation in line length.

Endpoint URL specification

In this first example, the endpoint URL is the first line in our scenario. This is more for demonstration purposes, as in the real world, a test is more likely...

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