ptrthomas

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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   Congrats on the launch ! I'm the lead dev of Karate[1] and was wondering if you had come across it. I strongly agree with you that collaboration should be via Git and the IDE[2] and that traditional solutions fall short. I hope Karate&
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   Very interesting point. I'm aware of the Microsoft UI Automation interface, which at least on Windows I think does exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_UI_Automation - and most Windows UI test-aut
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   Thanks! Great to hear this and I completely resonate with your experience. Really appreciate it, we will reach out.
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   Karate is open-source and will remain so. The IntelliJ plugin and Studio SaaS mentioned in the OP description are optional and you can find the pricing on our site.
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   Yes in the case of Postman, you need a separate tool (Newman) to run headless or CI in the cloud. In Karate, there is no separate headless-runner, there is just one tool which includes the test-runner. This simplifies things.
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   When you have a basic API test which makes an HTTP call and validates the response, it is quite simple. We've seen teams get started by just referring to an existing test or example. But you are right, when you start getting into compl
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   I agree the syntax takes some getting used to. Do pass on to the team that there is an IntelliJ plugin and a VS Code plugin. You can easily call a database or any external system using Java interop: https://stackoverflow.com&#x2F
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   To be honest my experience with Storybook is limited, and I see it more specialized for design-system consistency and review. Karate is a generic browser automation framework, which can do cross-browser testing. With some tweaks it could po
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   by ptrthomas 4y ago

   Thank you for your support!
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    by ptrthomas 4y ago

    Postman is a "UI driven" tool, it is great for exploratory testing of APIs and sharing the knowledge on how you call an API (e.g. collections) with others. But Karate tests are scripts that can be checked into version-control just
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    by ptrthomas 4y ago

    Thanks Uday!
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    Launch HN: Karate Labs (YC W22) – Open-Source API and UI Test Automation

    102 points by ptrthomas 4y ago|36 comments
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    by ptrthomas 6y ago

    Thanks, that makes sense
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    by ptrthomas 6y ago

    > We built Axiom on a pretty popular framework, Puppeteer, which requires desktop binaries to run. This means you need an Electron app, too. I thought it was Playwright that depends on patched browser binaries and that Puppeteer works wi
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    by ptrthomas 6y ago

    see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24183517
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    by ptrthomas 6y ago

    Common question, addressed here: https://hackernoon.com/yes-karate-is-not-true-bdd-698bf4a9be...
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    Yes, Karate is not *true* BDD(medium.com)

    1 points by ptrthomas 10y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: Karate – a DSL for writing web-service API acceptance tests(github.com)

    1 points by ptrthomas 10y ago|1 comments