Karate VS Testcontainers

This is why we need better tools which will give benefits for the added complexity. If you need to create both the feature files AND the code, it's just complexity with little benefits. But frameworks like https://github.com/karatelabs/karate or https://github.com/Endava/cats are hiding this complexity and remove the code layer entirely. Which, in my view, this is where you need to be in 2023, particularly for API testing.

- https://insomnia.rest/ - https://hoppscotch.io/ - https://github.com/karatelabs/karate - https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman

Congrats on the launch ! I'm the lead dev of [Karate](https://github.com/karatelabs/karate) and was wondering if you had come across it. I strongly agree that collaboration should be [via Git](https://www.karatelabs.io/first-class-citizens) and the IDE and traditional solutions fall short. I hope Karate's syntax passes your "memory friendly" test :) We get regular feedback is that it is easy to read and even non-programmers can pick it up. One thing I feel we do really well is chaining of HTTP requests. And we have plugins for [IntelliJ](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/19232-karate) and [VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=karatela...).

Maintaining a tool like this as open-source is hard, all the best !

FWIW https://github.com/karatelabs/karate is 83% Java.

We use karate to test our fully integrated graphql backend. Has Gherkin language support.

Try Karate

Take a look at Karate.

except the parent is wrong (at least the Java impl). see:

https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/m...

https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/m...

> I wonder if Rancher Desktop, et al, works with testcontainers.org?

I don't use testcontainers myself, but it looks like as long as you are using Rancher Desktop >= 1.0.1 you should be just fine.[1]

[1] https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/issues...

Thanks for the feedback. You are right, and there are some other mock-up alternatives as well, a good one for developers https://testcontainers.com/

In this article, we will explore how to use Testcontainers and Exposed, a lightweight ORM framework for Kotlin, to create a controlled environment for testing MySQL Database operations.

Unfortunately, it still remains hard to use Testcontainers because of how wedded it is to junit4, five years after the release of junit 5. https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/issues/970

Finally, we put the directory with generated contents (HTML, CSS, JS) into a tarball. Testcontainers library allows to copy files from a container to the OS but not directories. That’s why we need an archive inside the SchemaSpy container.

This repository provides a BuildImageTest that uses the buildpack to create a native image. It then tests the native image, using Testcontainers and JUnit. Building the native image with AOT processing, as part of a test, takes minutes not seconds, and should not be part of normal "inner loop" development. So the BuildImageTest is in a separate sourceSet and can be executed independently. This is a very powerful pattern, that I'm just getting started with. I would love to hear your thoughts on this pattern or other alternatives to it.

The list goes on. Check out the full list of Testcontainer modules.

Test-Container Java

TestContainers looks Java specific... or are you talking about something else?