This is just to reduce confusion for users new to Karate who tend to do * def request = {} and expect the request body or similarly, the url to be set. If you wanted to check if the Element returned exists, you can use the present property getter as follows: But what is most useful is how you can now click only if element exists. If you are familiar with Cucumber / Gherkin, the big difference here is that you dont need to write extra glue code or Java step definitions ! Powerful JSON & XML assertions are built-in, and you can run tests in parallel for speed. Note how the fake response.json is tiny compared to the real JSON, because we know that only a few data-elements are needed for the UI to work in this case. } For teams familiar with or currently using REST-assured, this detailed comparison of Karate vs REST-assured - can help you evaluate Karate. 2 Simple arrays of strings or numbers can be stripped of duplicates using karate.distinct(). You can then skip the next few sections, as the pom.xml, recommended directory structure, sample test and JUnit 5 runners - will be created for you. { "roomInformation": [{ "roomPrice": 618.4 }], "totalPrice": 618.4 }, Note how even tags to exclude (or include) can be specified: Note that any Feature or Scenario with the special @ignore tag will be skipped by default. # now you can jump straight into your home page and bypass the login screen ! { So if you return complex objects such as a custom Java instance or a JS function that depends on complex objects, this may cause issues when you run in parallel. The mouse().move() method has two forms. So an additional rule in the above flow of rules (before the first step) is as follows: Karate scripts are technically in Gherkin format - but all you need to grok as someone who needs to test web-services are the three sections: Feature, Background and Scenario. If a handler function (returning a boolean) is provided - it will be used to complete the listen wait if true is returned. GET Example 2: In the Given section we are using path/query parameter. Since a scroll() + click() (or input()) is a common combination, you can chain these: This returns an instance of Mouse on which you can chain actions. - Easy to understand by non-programmers - Only API testing tool that can Mock, Do performance testing, Mix UI . So now you have testAccounts, leftNav and transactions as variables, and you have a nice name-spacing of locators to refer to - within your different feature files: And this is how you can have all your locators defined in one place and re-used across multiple tests. For example look at how creator has been defined in the Background in this example, and used later in a call statement. Note how triple-quotes (""") are used to enclose content. The configure driver options are fine for testing on localhost and when not in headless mode. UI API Automation Tester. If you find yourself juggling multiple tags with logical AND and OR complexity, refer to this Stack Overflow answer. 'name is Bob and age is 5', # the single cell can be any valid karate expression, * def generator = function(i){ if (i == 20) return null; return { name, Keywords that set multiple key-value pairs in one step, Managing Headers, SSL, Timeouts and HTTP Proxy, Matching Sub-Sets of JSON Keys and Arrays, mix Karate into Java projects or legacy UI-automation suites, Karate entered the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar, 7 New Features in Karate Test Automation Version 1.0, nested chunks of JSON that name-space your config variables, alternate way of calling JavaScript functions, exact same example implemented in REST-assured and TestNG, do not use this unless you know what you are doing, see above, Comparison engine(s) to use. Refer to the section on dynamic port numbers for an example. Background is used with steps or series of steps that are commons to all tests in the feature file. Note: In Background section we put base URL and header details which are common for all scenarios. In rare cases, e.g. B efore to start talking, How I have learned and show an example How to connect on database with Karate Framework, let me introduce It. This gives you some powerful options, for example you can simulate Ajax and XHR failures, or even replace entire widgets or sections of the page with fake HTML. If the request is for /api/*, the first Scenario matches - else the last one is a catch all. The set of built-in functions that start with wait handle all the cases you would need to typically worry about. It is one of the great tool for API testing. Note that the special, built-in tag @ignore will always be skipped by default, and you dont need to specify ~@ignore anywhere. The @setup tag is built-in for this purpose and any Scenario tagged with this will behave like @ignore. - Karate is BDD testing framework - Developer by Peter Thomas in 2017 (intuit). It can be easily inspected or used in expressions. It short-cuts to the pre-defined variable responseHeaders and reduces some complexity - because strictly, HTTP headers are a multi-valued map or a map of lists - the Java-speak equivalent being Map>. And you can consider a driverTarget approach for complex needs such as using a Docker container for CI. predicate syntax, and situations where this comes in useful will be apparent when we discuss match each. For example a lot of Java projects directly (or indirectly) depend on Netty or Thymeleaf or ANTLR, etc. This can also be used as a setter to navigate to a new URL during a test. If you have trouble with