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Karate DSL vs Paw: What are the differences?
Developers describe Karate DSL as "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. On the other hand, Paw is detailed as "The ultimate REST client for Mac". 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.
Karate DSL and Paw are primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" and "API" tools respectively.
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, Paw provides the following key features:
- Organize your Requests, make Groups or sort by Host, Name, etc.
- Easily build your requests, enjoy Formatters and Dynamic Values.
- See Request and Response infos, headers, and body.
"Easy CI integration via cross-platform executable / CLI" is the primary reason why developers consider Karate DSL over the competitors, whereas "Great interface" was stated as the key factor in picking Paw.
Karate DSL is an open source tool with 2.12K GitHub stars and 526 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Karate DSL's open source repository on GitHub.
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
Pros of Paw
- Great interface46
- Easy to use37
- More stable and performant than the others25
- Saves endpoints list for testing16
- Supports environment variables13
- Integrations12
- Multi-Dimension Environment Settings9
- Paste curl commands into Paw4
- Creates code for any language or framework2
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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
Cons of Paw
- It's not free3
- MacOS Only2
