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People think of automation to gradually reduce time-consuming repetitive and manual work. It is a known fact that automation testing reduces time<\/a>, improves productivity, generates reports automatically, etc. Fundamentally one should have some level of expertise in coding to write automation test scripts and subsequently run it without any hassles, you need to have so many things handy while setting up a framework, say for instance you should have technical know-how of integrating necessary plugins, creating a proper folder structure for your code, selecting tools and IDE\u2019s, etc. A newbie software tester with less coding knowledge will be overwhelmed with these setups and potentially neglect automation testing.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen a lot of testers, QA engineers using Postman\/Insomnia\/Paw to test their REST API endpoints manually because they do not know how to automate them. Automating API testing<\/a> is a more complex procedure, setting the initial process and running it successfully is often one of the most challenging parts of the process, one must be ready to face a series of challenges like parameter validation, a sequence of API calls, testing the parameter combination, etc.<\/p>\n

Our engineers gave it a go with many API frameworks like RestAssured, SOAP UI, Katalon Studio<\/a> and Karate. We have always been excited while working with Karate framework because Karate framework is promisingly a mature framework since API tests are written using plain text Gherkin style as it is built on top of Cucumber and is written in Java.<\/p>\n

Why we recommend it<\/h3>\n

<\/i> Java knowledge is not required and even non-programmers can write tests with ease ( it runs on JVM)<\/p>\n

<\/i> It supports JSON and XML including JsonPath and XPath expressions,<\/p>\n

<\/i> Re-use of payload-data and user-defined functions across tests is possible.<\/p>\n

<\/i> Simple latency assertions can be used to validate non-functional requirements like performance requirements. (for ex. it is used to measure the performance of the API when it is executed multiple times by measuring the response time)<\/p>\n

How to Setup Karate framework<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us see the step by step guide on setting up Karate framework<\/p>\n

<\/i> Start up your favorite IDE. (we are taking InteliJ IDEA in this example.)<\/p>\n

<\/i> Go to File> New> Maven Project and take the defaults on the first screen.<\/p>\n

<\/i> Under New Maven Project, click on Add Archetype<\/p>\n

<\/i> Enter the following info:<\/p>\n

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