Many companies have different environments that are used during the software delivery life cycle.

It starts with the local machines on which the applications are developed. This is often followed by staging, which in the best case is an environment that is as close as possible to the production environment. Between staging and production environments, there may be other steps, for example, for user acceptance testing.

The problem here is that each environment has a different base URL, sometimes even a different endpoint-, up to a completely different access method and configuration.

Karate offers a very straightforward mechanism to cope with this. To demonstrate this, we created a new demo project called environments. The code for this example can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Writing-API-Tests-with-Karate/tree/main/chapter04/environments.

Figure 4.25 – Environment demo project...