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  5. Karate DSL vs Metlo

Karate DSL vs Metlo

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Overview

Karate DSL
Karate DSL
Stacks148
Followers268
Votes85
Metlo
Metlo
Stacks0
Followers6
Votes0
GitHub Stars1.7K
Forks99

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Detailed Comparison

Karate DSL
Karate DSL
Metlo
Metlo

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.

It is a self-hosted, open-source first API security platform that inventories, tests, and protects your API endpoints. You can proactively test your APIs before they go into production and detect API attacks in real-time.

Native support for both JSON and XML; Powerful payload assertions with "deep-equals"; Data-driven testing; Easy even for non-programmers; Embedded JavaScript engine; Test-doubles or HTTP mocking built-in; Re-use test scripts as performance-tests; Environment switching; Comprehensive reports, supported by all CI tools
Open source; Testing first; Best in class attack detection; Detect API attacks in real-time
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
1.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
99
Stacks
148
Stacks
0
Followers
268
Followers
6
Votes
85
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 11
    Easy CI integration via cross-platform executable / CLI
  • 9
    Easy for even non-programmers to get started
  • 9
    Simple and meaningful asserts for large responses
  • 7
    Data-driven tests that can even use JSON or CSV sources
  • 5
    Comprehensive documentation and examples
Cons
  • 1
    Complex folder structure, without a defined pattern
  • 1
    Karate uses its own scripting language
  • 1
    There is no IntelliSense support in IDE
  • 1
    Finding errors in code is not easy
  • 1
    Ode support becomes very time consuming and expensive b
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Integrations
JavaScript
JavaScript
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Java
Java
Cucumber
Cucumber
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA
JUnit
JUnit
Eclipse
Eclipse
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
OpenAPI Specification
OpenAPI Specification
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform

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Postman

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Paw

Paw

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

Robot Framework

Robot Framework

It is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.

Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt

It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

Appwrite

Appwrite

Appwrite's open-source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions and Storage to your product and build any application at any scale, own your data, and use your preferred coding languages and tools.

Runscope

Runscope

Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

Sqreen

Sqreen

Sqreen is a security platform that helps engineering team protect their web applications, API and micro-services in real-time. The solution installs with a simple application library and doesn't require engineering resources to operate. Security anomalies triggered are reported with technical context to help engineers fix the code. Ops team can assess the impact of attacks and monitor suspicious user accounts involved.

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia REST Client

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Instant 2FA

Instant 2FA

Add a powerful, simple and flexible 2FA verification view to your login flow, without making any DB changes and just 3 API calls.

RAML

RAML

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