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15 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 5 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-02-11 · latest 2025-06-20

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  1. In the JVM projects, I use Karate for integration tests: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate It gives you full control of constructing requests and assertions because test scenarios may include arbitrary JavaScript.
    comment by a57721 · 2025-06-20 · in Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
  2. …both the feature files AND the code, it's just complexity with little benefits. But frameworks like https://github.com/karatelabs/karate or https://github.com/Endava/cats are hiding this complexity and remove the code layer entirely.…
    comment by ludovicianul · 2023-03-03 · in Cucumber maintainer has been laid off
  3. …Studio Code[4]. Maintaining a tool like this as open-source is a big effort, all the best ! [1] https://github.com/karatelabs/karate [2] https://www.karatelabs.io/first-class-citizens [3] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/19232-karate…
    comment by ptrthomas · 2023-01-06 · in Show HN: Lama2 - Plain-Text Powered REST API Client for Teams
  4. …native HTTP comprehension, which seems like it hits a similar area in the testing concept space: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate
    comment by theptip · 2022-11-25 · in Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
  5. …DESPERATELY. And despite that, this was the feedback from some of my colleagues (referring to this: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate/raw/master/karate-demo/... ) : "I not like syntax but docs looks like good_)" "I also don't like the…
    comment by zomglings · 2022-06-13 · in Launch HN: Karate Labs (YC W22) – Open-Source API and UI Test Automation
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    Launch HN: Karate Labs (YC W22) – Open-Source API and UI Test Automation
    story by ptrthomas · 2022-06-13 · 36 comments
  7. …package, ugly but works great, and Newman the Postman command line utility with some JS test code. https://github.com/karatelabs/karate
    comment by 2rsf · 2022-05-28 · in Ask HN: Best test automation tool for REST APIs
  8. …file could be technical, but you can wrap that in some accessible keywords for non-techies [1] https://github.com/intuit/karate
    comment by 2rsf · 2021-03-10 · in How do sales/marketing/ops teams test APIs without using engineering resources?
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    Karate: Test Automation Made Simple
    story by based2 · 2020-08-16 · 19 comments
  10. …it's rather cryptic. It is easy to maintain though once your team becomes fluent in Karate. [1] https://github.com/intuit/karate
    comment by jacekm · 2020-04-16 · in Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema
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    Karate: Test Automation Made Simple
    story by ddb · 2020-02-01 · 0 comments
  12. …) for pure bash scripts if restricted to that, and karateDSL ( https://github.com/intuit/karate ) for a complete solution including cucumber, js, test report generation etc..
    comment by cmehdy · 2018-09-10 · in Strest – Flexible REST Tests in YAML
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    Karate: Web-Services Testing Made Simple
    story by based2 · 2018-01-06 · 0 comments
  14. Here's a great testing library that leans heavily on Nashorn. https://github.com/intuit/karate . I find this a beautiful use of JavaScript in Java.
    comment by james-mcelwain · 2017-07-12 · in Doppio: JVM written in JavaScript
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    Show HN: Karate – a DSL for writing web-service API acceptance tests
    story by ptrthomas · 2017-02-11 · 1 comment