API Automation using Java Karate Framework

Navigate to the algoQA script generated folder structure.

Click the POM file.

Make sure to create a Maven Project if it has not been created earlier and add the following dependencies in the POM file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.intuit.karate</groupId>
  <artifactId>karate-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.intuit.karate</groupId>
 <artifactId>karate-apache</artifactId>
 <version>0.9.6</version>
 <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupId>com.intuit.karate</groupId>
 <artifactId>karate-junit4</artifactId>
 <version>1.3.1</version>
 <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Navigate to the Canvas.

Add Login, Create Project and Delete Project features in Test Design.

Click the Login feature and add the following control names and control values as shown in the following table.

Ensure to select Text Box as the Control Type for all the UI elements that you are providing:

Control/UI element Name	Control Values
Login End Point url	"https://algoshack.net/user/login/"
Login Method	POST
Login Header	Content-Type = 'application/json'
Login Request body	&#123;"user":{"email":"<username>@gmail.com", "password":"encrypted format"}}. Here, replace "<username>@gmail.com" with the actual user's email ID and "encrypted format" with the actual user's encrypted password.
Login Output	200
Login store variable	<accessToken> Here, replace with an actual variable.

Sample screenshot:

Similarly, enter the appropriate UI elements and corresponding control values for Create Project and Delete Project.

Record a scenario using Offline Recorder and generate Test Cases.

Test cases are generated in the Test Cases tab. For more information, see Record a Scenario using Offline Recorder article. The feature file can be viewed in Test Cases and a unique ID will be generated for each test case.

Navigate to Scenarios List>>Scenario Steps List>>Edit Step Form secondary screen by clicking the Edit icon of the first GWT step arranged in the sequence, select the 'no precondition' option from the Test Step Settings dropdown list and save (Login End Point url in this case).

For the last step, select the 'no postcondition' option (in this case- Delete_Project_output) from Test Step Settings dropdown list.

In the Scenario Steps List, clear the Gwt Input contents if it exists for all the GWT steps.

You can add specific comments in the Comment textbox, which is specifically used for this framework.

Click the '+' icon beside the GWT step and click Comment to view the comment space. Add a comment and click Save.

Download the generated script to your local folder.

Extract the contents to your local drive.

Open the command prompt from the same folder where you have extracted the script.

Run the following command to execute the script:

mvn test -Dkarate.options="--tags @test001"

You can view the respective report once the script is executed.