Karate

Turn your API Spec into a Test Suite. Instantly. For many teams, there is a painful gap between the API design (the spec) and the API tests (the reality). Bridging that gap usually means hours of manual scripting. With today’s release, Xplorer closes that gap.

We’re making a bet: The winners of this era won’t be the ones writing code the fastest, but the ones who can trust code the fastest. Launching Karate Agent: Autonomous QA infrastructure for the Agent Era. youtu.be/jM5pK0HHYuA

Drop-in Migration from v1 =================== Most v1 code works with just a dependency update. We've included compatibility shims for v1 core classes such as the “Runner”. See the Migration Guide for details: github.com/karatelabs/kar… We Need Your Feedback! =================== This is a Release Candidate. Try Karate v2 and let us know what works, what doesn't, and what you'd like to see improved. Your feedback is invaluable as we work toward the final release.

🤖 Browser Automation ------------------------ ▪️ CDP Driver Rewrite - Complete reimplementation using Chrome DevTools Protocol directly ▪️ PooledDriverProvider - Automatic browser pooling for parallel UI automation ▪️ Auto-wait - Automatic waiting before element operations reduces flaky tests 💻 Developer Experience ------------------------- ▪️ Unified Event System - Single `RunListener` API for observing and controlling test execution ▪️ JSONL Streaming - Memory-efficient report format with real-time progress ▪️ Modern HTML Reports - Bootstrap 5.3 with dark mode, interactive tag filtering ▪️ JUnit 6 Integration - Streaming dynamic test generation

Test Automation, Reimagined - Karate v2 is here! ==================================== Following-up on our original announcement, we're excited to announce that Karate v2 is now available on Maven Central for you to try! Read on to see what's new...

Welcoming Mamie F Jones to Karate Labs Advisory Board. Karate is used by 650+ companies, including 76 of the F500. With marquee brand names as customers, we aspire to be the top solution for API testing across Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Retail and Software. In May 2024, we welcomed Zachary Griesbach from Guidewire Software to our Advisory Board to provide industry-specific guidance for the Insurance vertical. Today, we're thrilled to add expertise in organizational transformation and leadership excellence as we continue to scale Karate Labs to a category-defining enterprise solution. It is our pleasure to have Mamie F. Jones join Karate Labs Advisory Board. Mamie brings 35+ years of transformation leadership across technology giants including Intuit, Sabre, Travelocity, Dun & Bradstreet, and Dell. As former SVP of Product Development at Intuit, she led the company's cloud and platform transformation, reducing operational costs by 25% while accelerating cloud migration in under two years. She spearheaded innovative ML initiatives that revolutionized the accounting and tax industry. Mamie is the author of "Lead Extraordinary Change: The Proven Playbook for Driving Successful Organizational Transformation" and has received numerous honors including the CEO Leadership Award at Intuit (2016) and the Tech Titan CTO Award for North Texas (2015). She currently serves as an Independent Board Director at Mastek Inc. While Zachary guides us on Insurance industry requirements and go-to-market strategy, Mamie will focus on organizational transformation, building high-performing engineering teams, fostering innovation culture, operational excellence, and strategic growth as we scale across all our target verticals. Mamie, welcome to the Karate Labs Advisory Board. We look forward to your strategic guidance, mentoring and having you part of our journey.

Karate brings API test automation, performance checks, and UI testing into one powerful framework, helping teams deliver faster with cleaner, readable scenarios. Learn why it stands out and how you can get started with building your first tests in Ahmet Geçer's blog from our QA team. 🔗 commencis.com/thoughts/karat… #APITesting #Automation #KarateFramework #SoftwareTesting #QATeam

In case you missed the Karate v2 announcement, link is in the comments.

Turn your API Spec into a Test Suite. Instantly. For many teams, there is a painful gap between the API design (the spec) and the API tests (the reality). Bridging that gap usually means hours of manual scripting. With today’s release, Xplorer closes that gap.

We're building this in the open. ☑️ Which capabilities matter most to you? ☑️ What's blocked you from adopting Karate before? ☑️ What would make Karate the best tool for your team? github.com/karatelabs/kar…

Announcing Karate v2 - a complete rewrite featuring a zero-install CLI, AI-ready architecture, and polyglot support #APITesting #TestAutomation #QA #OpenSource #DevOps #SoftwareTesting #AI #LLM

Karate 1.5.2 (final) has been released. This release focuses on new Java version compatibility, CVE resolution, some fixes and contributions. Work has started on Karate V2. We release the GitHub project and a detailed blog post tomorrow. Stay tuned! github.com/karatelabs/kar…

link to register: ticket.apidays.global/event/apidays-…

By the end, you’ll have a concrete playbook you can use for your own team! You’ll leave with patterns for introducing Karate into an existing regression process, realistic ways to reduce manual regression load without lying to yourself about coverage, and tactics for stopping automation getting stuck debugging the same false negatives every sprint. If you’re already using Karate but feel your test packs, pipelines, or people are close to breaking point, this talk is about how QA can use Karate to shift API quality left – and actually make it stick.

Shifting API Quality Left: How Developers Actually Adopted Karate - by Mark Hughes Register with the following VIP code at checkout: KARATEUSERVIP to join us in Paris on December 11, 2025 for Karate: The Future of API Testing