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Karate DSL vs Google Test: What are the differences?
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.
What is Google Test? Google Testing and Mocking Framework (By Google). It is a unit testing library for the C++ programming language, based on the xUnit architecture. The library is released under the BSD 3-clause license. It can be compiled for a variety of POSIX and Windows platforms, allowing unit-testing of C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification.
Karate DSL and Google Test belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Karate DSL are:
- Native support for both JSON and XML
- Powerful payload assertions with "deep-equals"
- Data-driven testing
On the other hand, Google Test provides the following key features:
- An xUnit test framework
- Test discovery
- A rich set of assertions
Karate DSL and Google Test are both open source tools. Google Test with 15.9K GitHub stars and 6.26K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Karate DSL with 3.34K GitHub stars and 884 GitHub forks.
Intuit, KocSistem, and DKB AG are some of the popular companies that use Karate DSL, whereas Google Test is used by Medicus AI, ReaQtor, and Stan. Karate DSL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to Google Test, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Google Test
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 Google Test
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
