Summary
Kola is a testing framework and tool, primarily serving the entire Apihug ecosystem, and is still under active development and enhancement (as of 2024/08).
Kola inherits the design principles of ApiHug:
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Unified language, DSL, and reduced divergence
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Relying on existing technologies, maximizing the utilization of existing assets
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Extremely low learning cost
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Single source of truth, with version control management
Existing Challenges
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Testing often requires either high expertise (programming skills) or is too loosely structured
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Multiple tool stacks and lack of context switching between different roles
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Lack of design planning upfront
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Rigorous version management
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Native Collaboration
Existing Concepts
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TDD: Test Driven Development
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BDD: Behavior-Driven Development
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CDC: Consumer Driven Contracts
So
Among the many testing solutions available, each has its own pros and cons, leading to a lack of overall convenience and completeness in most integrated solutions.
Some deficiencies are difficult to satisfy in the current paradigm, such as enabling all stakeholders (product manager, front-end, back-end, testing, etc.) to understand and write the tests, and providing a centralized and unified testing management.
Within the constrained environment of ApiHug, Kola provides a relatively optimal solution:
- Follows the BDD naming convention:
Given/When/Then/And, intuitive and simple - DSL, based on the declarative groovy syntax
- Strong validation: static checking (groovy) + compilation processing
- More
"sugar", enabling user habit migration:junit,junit5,assertj,jsonpath,rest-assured - ApiHug integration
- IDE support
- Collaboration
Eventually, on 2024-08-02, the first version of Kola, 1.0.0-RELEASE was released with latest ApiHug SDK bom.
Dependencies
Kola leverages a robust foundation of established, best-in-class third-party libraries and frameworks to deliver a comprehensive testing solution.
IDEA
All
简单，优雅，好用！
