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Cucumber vs Karate DSL: What are the differences?
What is Cucumber? Simple, human collaboration. Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.
What is Karate DSL? Open Source Web-Services Test Automation Framework. Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.
Cucumber and Karate DSL can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
Cucumber and Karate DSL are both open source tools. Cucumber with 2.54K GitHub stars and 501 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Karate DSL with 2.12K GitHub stars and 526 GitHub forks.
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Pros of Cucumber
- Simple Syntax20
- Simple usage8
- Huge community5
- Nice report3
Pros of Karate DSL
- Easy CI integration via cross-platform executable / CLI11
- Easy for even non-programmers to get started9
- Simple and meaningful asserts for large responses9
- Data-driven tests that can even use JSON or CSV sources7
- Easy parameterized configuration / custom variables5
- Very fast api testing tool5
- Comprehensive documentation and examples5
- Powerful and flexible payload assertions4
- Simple, concise, readable and maintainable tests4
- Easy re-use of JSON or JS / Java logic across tests4
- IDE support - IntelliJ, Eclipse & Visual Studio Code4
- Best option for testing GraphQL3
- Java-interop so you never "hit a wall" in the framework3
- Simple yet flexible Environment Switching built-in2
- Optionally mix re-usable JavaScript logic into scripts1
- Parallel Execution with Reports Aggregated1
- Active, Responsive community on Stack Overflow1
- Re-use functional tests as performance tests1
- Super simple API mocking, within the firewall1
- XML support, not just JSON1
- Developer-friendly collaboration via standard SCM / Git1
- Rich HTML reports with HTTP logs in-line1
- Great Developer-Experience - Debug UI, HTML reports1
- Websockets support1
- Rest assured0
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Cons of Karate DSL
- Ode support becomes very time consuming and expensive b1
- Finding errors in code is not easy1
- There is no IntelliSense support in IDE1
- Karate uses its own scripting language1
- Complex folder structure, without a defined pattern1
- Confusing report: Summarized by steps and not by featur1
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What is Cucumber?
Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.
What is Karate DSL?
Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.
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What are some alternatives to Cucumber and Karate DSL?
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
RSpec
Behaviour Driven
Development for Ruby.
Making TDD Productive and Fun.
TestNG
It is a testing framework designed to simplify a broad range of testing needs, it covers all categories of tests: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc.Run your tests in arbitrarily big thread pools with various policies available (all methods in their own thread, one thread per test class, etc.
JUnit
JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
Celery
Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.