There are different ways to set up a Karate project; the most popular one uses Apache Maven. In the following sections, we will see how this works.

IDE

In the following sections, I will use VS Code. For IntelliJ IDEA, you can check out the basic steps here: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/guide/tutorials/working-with-maven/creating-a-project.

Let’s first quickly look at what Maven is used for.

What is Maven?

Maven is one of the standard tools in the Java world to simplify application creation and dependency management. It uses a central configuration file called pom.xml to describe the dependencies that a Java project needs and the steps to test, build, and deploy it.

This is not a Maven book

Maven is a very extensive project with a lot of different applications. In our case, we will use only a small subset of Maven, since we do not need to build and deploy applications but only manage dependencies and run tests.

Let...