karatelabs/karate
Karate
Karate este un framework de testare API Gherkin și un orchestrator de teste JVM conceput pentru validarea API, automatizarea workflow-urilor și automatizarea browserelor. Oferă un mediu unificat pentru execuția logicii scriptabile pe Java Virtual Machine cu procesare concurentă thread-safe.
Proiectul include un server HTTP mock integrat pentru a simula comportamentul API-ului backend prin livrarea de răspunsuri dinamice la cererile interceptate. De asemenea, dispune de un instrument de testare vizuală de regresie care detectează modificările de interfață prin compararea capturilor de ecran cu imagini de referință folosind analiza de potrivire a pixelilor.
Sistemul suportă testarea de încărcare API prin scalarea testelor funcționale în teste de performanță pentru a identifica blocajele sistemului. Capabilitățile suplimentare includ testarea UI end-to-end prin automatizarea interacțiunii cu browserul și validarea structurii de date pentru răspunsuri JSON și XML.
Features
- Gherkin-based Testing - Executes API and UI automation tests using human-readable Gherkin feature files.
- Test Step Variable Propagation - Maintains a common data store to pass values and state between different test steps.
- Frontend API Mocking - Provides tools for simulating backend API responses and endpoints to test applications in isolation.
- JVM Instance Isolation - Processes multiple test scenarios concurrently using independent virtual machine instances for isolation.
- Response Schema Validators - Verifies JSON and XML response bodies by matching them against expected structural patterns.
- API Mocking - Ships a local server that delivers dynamic responses to emulate backend behavior for development and testing.
- API Testing - Provides a framework for writing and executing functional tests for HTTP services to validate responses.
- Automated Test Execution - Runs sequences of test steps using shared variables and parallel processing to automate complex user workflows.
- Browser Automation - Provides a framework for simulating user journeys via automated browser interactions.
- HTTP Mock Servers - Includes an embedded HTTP mock server to simulate backend behavior for dependency simulation.
- HTTP Request Clients - Provides libraries for executing programmatic HTTP requests to validate backend services.
- Response Body Assertions - Validates HTTP response bodies using Gherkin syntax to verify JSON and XML data structures.
- Automated End-to-End Testing - Automates browser interactions to verify complex user workflows and interface functionality.
- Test Orchestrators - Acts as a JVM test orchestrator that executes scriptable logic with thread-safe concurrent processing.
- JavaScript Bridges - Executes scriptable logic within a JVM environment using a bridge between Java and JavaScript.
- API Performance Testing Tools - Scales functional test suites into load and stress tests to identify processing bottlenecks.
- Functional-to-Performance Scaling - Transforms existing functional test scenarios into high-concurrency load generators for stability measurement.
- Visual Regression Testing - Compares current interface screenshots against baseline images to detect unintended visual changes.
- Screenshot Comparison - Detects interface changes by comparing current screenshots against baseline images using pixel-matching analysis.
- API Testing Tools - A unified framework for API testing and test automation.
- Framework-uri de testare - Unified framework for API automation, mocking, and performance.
