Authors Karate `.feature` files using its Gherkin-flavored DSL for HTTP API tests, leverages the `match` keyword with fuzzy validators (#number / #string / #regex / contains / arrays), runs the suite via JUnit 5 plus Maven Surefire, and produces JUnit XML for CI gating. Use when the project is on the JVM and prefers a feature-file authoring flow over Java-DSL fluent chains; for those fluent chains use restassured-testing, for the same YAML-style flow on a Python/pytest stack use tavern-testing.
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Companion to the karate-testing skill: the full step-keyword table and the
complete match modifier vocabulary. Per
karate-docs.
| Keyword | Purpose |
|---|---|
Feature: | One per file; describes the API surface under test. |
Scenario: | One per case; mirrors a single user / API journey. |
Background: | Steps that run before each Scenario (auth, base URL setup). |
Given url '...' | Set the request URL. |
Given path '...' | Append a path segment to the URL. |
Given header X = Y | Set a request header. |
Given param X = Y | Set a query parameter. |
Given request {...} | Set the JSON body. |
When method <verb> | Issue the HTTP request: get, post, put, delete. |
Then status N | Assert the response status code. |
And match expr | Assert response body / header / variable shape. |
# Equality on the whole response
And match response == { id: 1, name: 'Alice' }
# Type fuzzy: any number, any string
And match response == { id: '#number', name: '#string' }
# Regex constraint
And match response.email == '#regex .*@example\\.com'
# Array contains
And match response.items contains { sku: 'SKU-123' }
# Array length / shape
And match response.items == '#array'
And match response.items[0] == { sku: '#string', qty: '#number' }
# Optional / nullable fields
And match response == { id: '#number', deletedAt: '##string' } # ## = optional#number, #string, #boolean, #array, #object, #null, #notnull,
#present, #notpresent, #regex <pattern>, and ##<type> for optional
compose into a small but expressive matcher language (karate-docs).