Comments on: Citrus API Automation Testing Framework

By: Joe Colantonio

Joe Colantonio — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:50:19 +0000

In reply to Raghav. Hi Raghav - would love to know what you think once you take a look!!

By: Raghav

Raghav — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:49:17 +0000

Looks interesting.
Joe, I did not know about Citrus Automation prior to this TestTalk episode.
Will check this out more deeply.

By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:56:08 +0000

I’m the author of Karate DSL and while I appreciate the mention in this article, it is somewhat inaccurate and misleading. I quote:

> There are some tools for REST-based testing that integrate with Cucumber
> Karate DSL, for one—but what if you have test flows that also need to interact
> with JMS SOAP or other headless technologies?

First, Karate has excellent support for SOAP and XML. And, Karate not only has test-doubles (or mocks) as a first-class citizen of the framework, but if you follow the link here, the demo integrates ActiveMQ (JMS): https://github.com/intuit/karate/tree/master/karate-netty#consumer-provider-example

By: Joe Colantonio

Joe Colantonio — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:50:18 +0000

In reply to Nikolay Advolodkin. LOL I agree - I hate Java but use it because there are so many libraries and tools that use it. i would rather use python or even C# over Java myself :)

By: Nikolay Advolodkin

Nikolay Advolodkin — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:46:57 +0000

Totally agree how we need to start doing more automation at levels lower than the UI. Integration tests and unit tests are faster and drastically more reliable than UI automation. I’ve spent my career trying to get my UI tests as stable as unit tests and it simply isn’t happening. Either way, this tool seems great. Wish they had something similar for C#. The Java people are spoiled :)