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Congrats on the launch ! I'm the lead dev of Karate[1] and was wondering if you had come across it. I strongly agree with you that collaboration should be via Git and the IDE[2] an…

Very interesting point. I'm aware of the Microsoft UI Automation interface, which at least on Windows I think does exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_UI_Automati…

Thanks! Great to hear this and I completely resonate with your experience. Really appreciate it, we will reach out.

Karate is open-source and will remain so. The IntelliJ plugin and Studio SaaS mentioned in the OP description are optional and you can find the pricing on our site.

Yes in the case of Postman, you need a separate tool (Newman) to run headless or CI in the cloud. In Karate, there is no separate headless-runner, there is just one tool which incl…

When you have a basic API test which makes an HTTP call and validates the response, it is quite simple. We've seen teams get started by just referring to an existing test or exampl…

I agree the syntax takes some getting used to. Do pass on to the team that there is an IntelliJ plugin and a VS Code plugin. You can easily call a database or any external system u…

To be honest my experience with Storybook is limited, and I see it more specialized for design-system consistency and review. Karate is a generic browser automation framework, whic…

Thank you for your support!

Postman is a "UI driven" tool, it is great for exploratory testing of APIs and sharing the knowledge on how you call an API (e.g. collections) with others. But Karate tests are scr…

Thanks Uday!

Hi HN, Peter here, founder of Karate Labs ( https://karatelabs.io ) joined by my co-founder Kapil. Karate is an open-source solution unifying API and UI test automation, including …

Thanks, that makes sense

> We built Axiom on a pretty popular framework, Puppeteer, which requires desktop binaries to run. This means you need an Electron app, too. I thought it was Playwright that depend…

see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24183517

Common question, addressed here: https://hackernoon.com/yes-karate-is-not-true-bdd-698bf4a9be...