Karate Labs
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Gek Y.
Verified UserComputer Software · 10000+ employees
Karate User Experience
We had Karate Labs training workshops by [sensitive content hidden] to teach developers how to maximise the benefits of Karate. [sensitive content hidden] is very approachable and the Karate Open Source community is very active too. In fact, I see more and more developers outside my company become Karate converts.
- The product is easy to use, easy to teach and suitable for professional developers and citizen developers
- The debugger in IntellJ is good to use
- Karate allows UI Hybrid tests
- We don't need to use selenium
- You can use it to do API, UI, UI Hybrid End to End tests together using one testing framework
- Supporting multiple frameworks can be expensive
- This means cost effectiveness
- I would like to see more mobile app support on Karate Labs so it doesn't focus only on API, UI
- I like hybrid tests for more efficient software development time and mobile app developers can work closer with api developers to write End to End tests together using one testing framework
Lina K.
Verified UserComputer Software · 11-50 employees
Speed up your automation and make everyone understand what you're testing
It is great, I've implemented it in 3 different companies already. It allows me to start covering my API with tests right away and in a fast pace
Ease of setup, ease of writing tests even for juniors and the fact that it uses Gherkin, allows everyone to understand the tests
Visual testing still need some improvement, Karate is strong for API and performance tests
Mauricio A.
Verified UserComputer Software · 51-200 employees
Karate Labs Product according to my experience
Until now, very good, I only had a problem with the logs and my CI tool, but in general it is a good tool to automate API tests
- It is easy to understand and the executions are quick and clean
The price of the product, I know that the product needs a revenue to keep working, but the price can make that other testers may prefer using cheaper options
Kanishka J.
Verified UserComputer Software · 11-50 employees
Awesome Tool
Very satisfied. It has made my automation work very efficient.
- It is an excellent tool in all sense
- Used it for both API and UI automation
- Found pretty amazing with parallel execution, negligible flakiness, code less automation
- Gatling is not yet up to the mark as much as Jmeter
Adrian N.
Verified UserHospital & Health Care · 201-500 employees
An Automation Tool Built by Testers for Testers
When I started using Karate I barely knew any programming. Seven years later I've landed jobs to work on advanced automation projects. I owe it to the great mentors I've had along the way, one of those being Karate. The product, the creators, and the community have helped make my career the success it is today.
- The framework makes it possible for none technical people to learn automation and contribute to testing efforts as they go
- It's a framework that was built not on buzzwords or industry trends, but on solid quality assurance fundamentals
- It's the only framework I'm aware of that can bring unskilled and highly skilled QA automation folks together, without imposing rigid UI's, and without requiring in-depth knowledge of a programming language
- Karate also has the best customer support of any open source framework I've used
- Responses to questions are quick, and there is an openness to improve and enhance the framework that has led to many of it's best features
- For more advanced users, having to be constrained by the DSL can be a bit difficult
- Also the lack of a built in reporting tool that works across all major CI companies means you may have to write your own
- If your a JS shop, I believe node support is still in the early stages
Switched From
The homegrown framework designer left, and we didn't have any documentation. It was decided it would be better to use an open source project that could offer us support than attempt to reverse-engineer the framework we had in house.
Robert I.
Verified UserBiotechnology · 5001-10000 employees
An absolute MUST in your test automation toolbox!
Karate has made it a whole lot easier to solve some very complex testing scenarios that involve initializing third-party components, setting up test data, running API tests, followed by web and desktop UI tests, sometimes even combining them within one feature file. It also greatly simplified the post-execution steps for capturing test runs for compliance purposes. I have onboarded several engineers to use Karate and observed their proficiency in the framework grow very rapidly. Karate is truly a breath of fresh air when it comes to often daunting and complex world of test automation!
- I've been using Karate for 4+ years now and it's been a great experience all around
- First off, the documentation is very comprehensive and includes great examples
- As a low-code framework, it is relatively easy to adopt for programmers of all levels
- Its VS Code plugin enhances development and debugging experience
- One of my most favorite features is its support of variety of different types of testing - API, web UI, desktop UI, performance, etc
- The framework comes with a highly detailed test execution report, which can be very handy for debugging
- It's hard to think of any downsides of Karate, really
- My only slight gripe that comes to mind has to do with error messages
- Specifically those thrown by the JS engine, which can be ambiguous and sometimes hard to decipher
Nathan C.
Verified UserComputer Software · 51-200 employees
Simple tests are easy, built-in features can be augmented with Java/JavaScript
This solution is easy to teach to people without a lot of coding experience, but it is capable of being extended by those with a deeper skillset. Because Karate also uses Scenarios in Feature files, teams who are using a Cucumber framework can create Karate tests which live alongside legacy Cucumber tests, enabling a team to increase productivity by developing tests which are faster and more stable, while continuing to run their legacy tests. Both tests can exist side-by-side, in the same repository, so the team doesn't have to switch all at once. As Cucumber tests are rewritten in Karate, tags can be adjusted to coordinate which tests are run by which framework.
- Karate is an excellent solution for API testing and works well for UI testing as well
- I have used it with both Selenium and Playwright for browser automation
- It has an extensive set of features with lots of useful capabilities built-in
- When more advanced, custom capabilities are needed, the built-in functionality can be augmented using Java and/or JavaScript
- We can easily make use of any available Java library and we can manipulate Java objects while debugging in a way which is not typical when working with Java
- New code can be written and executed at runtime, while debugging, which makes for very quick development in a very productive, interactive workflow
- The framework is very well documented
- There are some aspects of working with Karate that take some getting used to
- For instance, it is a bit odd at first for one scenario to call another scenario as if it were a function, but once you learn how it works, it is easy to work with
Anthony S.
Verified UserFinancial Services · 10000+ employees
Karate: A Test Automation Superstar
I can't recommend Karate enough. It's really transformed the way my organization tackles API projects, and enabled our QA engineers to focus more on what they do best -- ensure quality in our products -- and less on learning to become Java developers.
- Karate is well documented and well supported
- [sensitive content hidden] is all over Stack Overflow, so if you run into an issue, chances are he's already answered your question, or will have an answer for you within hours
- But the DSL is so simple to learn, chances are you won't have any issues getting up and running with it
- And unlike other solutions, Karate offers a full range of automation capabilities: client-side assertions for API, UI & desktop testing, server-side mocks/simulators, and even performance testing (executed by Gatling)
- This is hard to answer, as Karate's Java interop capabilities make calling Java code incredibly easy, which means if Karate doesn't offer something "out of the box," you can simply spin up a custom Java class that accomplishes what you need it to
- That said, it would be nice if Karate offered some built-in Kafka capabilities (e
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- the ability to write to and read from a specified topic using a REST endpoint)
Switched From
I am not much of a Java guy, but found myself in a Java shop where all our automation was written in Java (well, specifically, Cucumber, which just means some plain English Gherkin statements masking a whole bunch of Java "glue"). I needed to keep pace with my development partners, but also had a life outside of work to attend to. Karate was the perfect solution: easy to learn, easy to use, and powerful enough to handle all my automation needs.
Why they chose it
"Easy of use, flexibility, and the fact that it could replace multiple tools (Cucumber/JGiven for end-to-end testing, Locust for performance testing, Wiremock for mocking, Selenium for UI testing)."
Oscar B.
Verified UserTelecommunications · 10000+ employees
Karate is a great swiss-army knife of the automation test community
I am using karate to automate the API testing and end-to-end of a number of core microservices as well as Redis and Kafka.
- Karate is easy to write tests once then duplicate or re-create for other teams purpose and scope
- I also love the fact that almost no development or code is required to get started
- This makes handing over and teaching how to write automated tests for my team a simple task
- I also love the speed and accuracy with which test logic and assertions can occur
- And the framework is very flexible for integration
- It would be nice to know if there is a clear frontrunner to use gradle or maven to base the build off
- Likewise it would be good to have one 'preferred' http client
Why they chose it
"A number of reasons to choose karate over something like Selenium. First off, the biggest drawcard is not having to continuously write new Java and Cucumber code. Karate's seamless DSL being integrated into"
Lyubomir L.
Verified UserTelecommunications · 501-1000 employees
The one stop automation suite
I've been doing automation since the days of IBM Rational Robot and QTP. For all this years, automation was a high effort/low result exercise. After we adopted an of the shelf tool in the last year, and due to it's high price I had to migrate all tests to Karate. It took me just 1 month to develop the whole suite from selenium based mess to karate.
- - Can be adopted fast even by non QAs- GIT- Full control of your suite- API, but more importantly WEB UI testing - so easy- Docker the tests
- Just find some random linux machine as your executor, no VMS, no AWS - just a linux console- Complete control of automating APIs - we use it for monitoring, to slack a report, to do the API tests- Good support- Easy to understand
- - Support, but I know that it will be improved in the future
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