Setting up Your Karate Project
Karate allows us to use it in a variety of ways. We could use the standalone version of it to just have a simple way of running tests and trying out its capabilities. However, it is more convenient to set it up with a proper build tool and Integrated Development Environment (IDE), as this greatly simplifies development and facilitates the running and debugging of tests.
We will check out how to get your system prepared for the Karate framework and look at different build tools and IDE plugins. By the end of this chapter, you will understand what is needed to develop and run Karate tests locally on your system and be prepared for the next chapters, where we will dive deeper into the Karate DSL.
In this chapter, we will cover these main topics:
- Installing Java
- Getting to know Karate standalone
- Preparing the IDE
- Setting up Karate projects with Maven
- The roles of the different Karate project files
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