InditexTech Karate Tools
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InditexTech Karate Tools
InditexTech Karate Tools
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About Karate Tools

What Karate Tools is, who it is for, and why it exists.

Karate Tools is a toolkit to facilitate a Karate module’s initialization, configuration, test generation and execution.

⚙️ Initialization and configuration through a Maven archetype.

🗂️ Automated generation of test scenarios, test data and external services mocks from Open API.

🛠️ Usual operations such as authentication, database interaction, and messaging (Kafka & JMS).

⏩ Execution in different environments of Karate tests for a REST artifact.

Key features

Using an archetype (karatetools-archetype), Karate Tools generates a Karate project from scratch with the necessary configurations and utilities for the generation and execution of Karate tests.

  • Configuration files (karate, auth, jdbc, kafka, …​).

  • JavaScript and Karate utilities, which include:

    • the management of files and payloads.

    • authentication (basic, JWT, …​), allowing you to change from one to another via the test configuration.

    • initialization and management of Karate mock servers for external services.

  • Java dependencies to the karatetools-starter, which include:

    • open-api-generator, a Java command-line interface for the automatic generation of tests in Gherkin, with their related data sets and schemas for response validation, as well as data to mock external services from Open API definitions. See Karate Open Api Generator.

    • Java clients to interact with relational databases (JDBC), a non-relational database (MongoDB), event messaging (Kafka consumer and producer) and JMS messaging. See Karate Clients.

    • a Java KarateCache to share variables across tests. See Karate Cache.

Benefits

  • Faster onboarding: a new module starts from a working, opinionated structure instead of a blank project.

  • Less boilerplate: Open API generation removes most of the manual work of writing scenarios, test data and mocks by hand.

What Karate Tools is not

  • Karate Tools does not replace Karate itself — it is a set of conventions, generators and clients built on top of it.

Status and roadmap

Karate Tools is actively maintained and used internally at InditexTech; this site tracks its current, stable feature set. See the release notes for what changed recently.