Co-founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/D1mZAXW9nE (YC W22) & creator of @getkarate - the only open-source tool that unifies API testing, mocks, performance and UI automation
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Peter Thomas retweeted
Many such cases.
Team building events and offsites optimize solely for one specific personality type.
Rare is the leader who designs team events in ways that work for the multitude of personalities that exist on every team.
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Peter Thomas retweeted
Karate 2.0.10 has been released. If you have been holding off on upgrading to v2, now is the time!
Check out the re-designed HTML report! Dark-mode, tag filtering and JSON syntax coloring!
Thanks to all the users already on v2 and who filed issues, we closed 25 of them in this release.
Peter Thomas retweeted
A 1% error shouldn't cost you $10 Million. 📉
In the world of enterprise insurance, a single miscalculated rating factor isn’t just a "glitch"—it’s a massive drain on profitability. For a $1B premium book, a tiny 1% error translates to a $10M loss.
#InsuranceTech #InsurTech #Underwriting #RiskManagement #ActuarialScience #VeriQuant
Peter Thomas retweeted
The Future of API Quality is Here.
We are proud to be featured by @Gartner_inc in the newly defined API and MCP Testing Tools category on Peer Insights.
As organizations move toward AI-native architectures, testing standard APIs is no longer enough. The need is for robust testing of the interfaces that power AI agents.
At Karate Labs, we are dedicated to providing the tools software engineering leaders need to:
🔹 Validate behavior across diverse protocols (REST, SOAP, gRPC).
🔹 Support the emerging standards of AI agent interaction.
🔹 Boost developer productivity without sacrificing quality.
Check out what the peer community is saying about us on @Gartner_Peer Insights
#TestAutomation #EngineeringExcellence #Gartner #AIArchitecture #APIManagement
Peter Thomas retweeted
Announcing Karate Agent: The 100% self-hosted, air-gap ready, AI-native verification platform.
Designed specifically for highly regulated enterprise environments, Karate Agent ensures your session transcripts, screenshots, and video recordings stay securely on your own infrastructure.
🔒 Self-Hosted & Air-Gapped: Zero cloud dependency.
🧠 Bring Your Own LLM: Run with Claude, GPT, or entirely local models via Ollama. No vendor lock-in.
📹 Built-in Audit Trails: Opt-in H.264 session recording for compliance and rapid QA review.
Your proprietary application data is exactly that - yours.
Stop choosing between AI-driven efficiency and enterprise security. Reach out to our team today to schedule a demo and trial for your organization.
#EnterpriseSecurity #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #HealthTech #FinTech #QA #TestAutomation #KarateAgent #browseruse #rpa
Peter Thomas retweeted
Karate 2.0.1 has been released with some important fixes.
github.com/karatelabs/karate…
Karate 2.0 is here.
✅ One-click setup - Install the VS Code extension, hit "Karate: Setup" — done. No Java install, no Maven, no Gradle. You're running tests in under a minute.
✅ Debug JavaScript in your IDE - For the first time, you can set breakpoints and step through embedded JS in `.feature` files. Works in both VS Code and IntelliJ.
✅ Soft assertions for JSON - Match failures no longer stop your test at the first error. Every validation runs, every failure is reported. You see the full picture in one pass.
Other highlights: Native implementation of CDP and W3C WebDriver for cross-browser testing, virtual threads for parallel execution, a custom JS engine with zero dependencies, and a ground-up rewrite built on Java 21.
github.com/karatelabs/karate…
#apitesting #testautomation #cicd #performancetesting #uiautomation
Peter Thomas retweeted
Karate 2.0 is here.
✅ One-click setup - Install the VS Code extension, hit "Karate: Setup" — done. No Java install, no Maven, no Gradle. You're running tests in under a minute.
✅ Debug JavaScript in your IDE - For the first time, you can set breakpoints and step through embedded JS in `.feature` files. Works in both VS Code and IntelliJ.
✅ Soft assertions for JSON - Match failures no longer stop your test at the first error. Every validation runs, every failure is reported. You see the full picture in one pass.
Other highlights: Native implementation of CDP and W3C WebDriver for cross-browser testing, virtual threads for parallel execution, a custom JS engine with zero dependencies, and a ground-up rewrite built on Java 21.
github.com/karatelabs/karate…
#apitesting #testautomation #cicd #performancetesting #uiautomation
Peter Thomas retweeted
Feels like everyone making their own agent stumbles across the same primitives and thinks they solved something
Let me save you some time (read this, it's funny and useful):
- You're going to make an agent
- You're going to run it on benchmarks
> It's going to suck
- You're going to make a tool to analyze traces
- You're going to say this helped you
> It wont work
- You're going to think about role based agents for solving a single task
- You're going to make a workflow for solving a benchmark
> Both will work. Neither are generalized
- You'll think you made it
> It will be nearly unusable by an end user
> Back to square one
- You're going to realize you're stuck with a for loop
- You're going to think about swarms
> In swarms single agent usability doesn't matter
- But wait you need a task manager
- But wait you need a merge queue
- But wait you need compression for long jobs
> Compression is a foot gun
- But wait now you need an agent to manage it all
- But wait now you need something that checks to make sure the manager is managing
- You're going to go back to single loop agents
- Well, subagents seem like the way to do all of this
> Bam! Plot twist: subagents are hard to do well
- You're going to think "Hmm well subagents isolate context" because <Insert_Person> said so
- You're going to start to look at other agent implementations
> How have they all solved compaction, multi-agent, task management, memory etc.?
- You're going to realize it's all just tradeoffs, but most of them have only one side people care about
- "Oh it's all just context engineering"
> Yep. But it has to be good and it has to be general.
> Back to the starting loop. Rinse and repeat.
Congrats.
Keep it simple. Keep it general.
Peter Thomas retweeted
Welcoming Mamie F Jones to Karate Labs Advisory Board.
Karate is used by 650+ companies, including 76 of the F500. With marquee brand names as customers, we aspire to be the top solution for API testing across Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Retail and Software.
In May 2024, we welcomed Zachary Griesbach from Guidewire Software to our Advisory Board to provide industry-specific guidance for the Insurance vertical. Today, we're thrilled to add expertise in organizational transformation and leadership excellence as we continue to scale Karate Labs to a category-defining enterprise solution.
It is our pleasure to have Mamie F. Jones join Karate Labs Advisory Board.
Mamie brings 35+ years of transformation leadership across technology giants including Intuit, Sabre, Travelocity, Dun & Bradstreet, and Dell. As former SVP of Product Development at Intuit, she led the company's cloud and platform transformation, reducing operational costs by 25% while accelerating cloud migration in under two years. She spearheaded innovative ML initiatives that revolutionized the accounting and tax industry.
Mamie is the author of "Lead Extraordinary Change: The Proven Playbook for Driving Successful Organizational Transformation" and has received numerous honors including the CEO Leadership Award at Intuit (2016) and the Tech Titan CTO Award for North Texas (2015). She currently serves as an Independent Board Director at Mastek Inc.
While Zachary guides us on Insurance industry requirements and go-to-market strategy, Mamie will focus on organizational transformation, building high-performing engineering teams, fostering innovation culture, operational excellence, and strategic growth as we scale across all our target verticals.
Mamie, welcome to the Karate Labs Advisory Board. We look forward to your strategic guidance, mentoring and having you part of our journey.
Peter Thomas retweeted
Karate brings API test automation, performance checks, and UI testing into one powerful framework, helping teams deliver faster with cleaner, readable scenarios.
Learn why it stands out and how you can get started with building your first tests in Ahmet Geçer's blog from our QA team.
🔗 commencis.com/thoughts/karat…
#APITesting #Automation #KarateFramework #SoftwareTesting #QATeam
Peter Thomas retweeted
Announcing Karate v2 - a complete rewrite featuring a zero-install CLI, AI-ready architecture, and polyglot support
#APITesting #TestAutomation #QA #OpenSource #DevOps #SoftwareTesting #AI #LLM
Peter Thomas retweeted
Karate 1.5.2 (final) has been released.
This release focuses on new Java version compatibility, CVE resolution, some fixes and contributions.
Work has started on Karate V2. We release the GitHub project and a detailed blog post tomorrow. Stay tuned!
github.com/karatelabs/karate…
