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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:

1. Unified language, DSL, and reduced divergence

2. Relying on existing technologies, maximizing the utilization of existing assets

3. Extremely low learning cost

4. Single source of truth, with version control management

Existing Challenges

1.  Testing often requires either high expertise (programming skills) or is too loosely structured

2. Multiple tool stacks and lack of context switching between different roles

3. Lack of design planning upfront

4. Rigorous version management

5. Native Collaboration

Existing Concepts

1. TDD: Test Driven Development

2. BDD: Behavior-Driven Development

3. 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:

1. Follows the BDD naming convention: Given/When/Then/And, intuitive and simple

2. DSL, based on the declarative groovy syntax

3. Strong validation: static checking (groovy) + compilation processing

4. More "sugar", enabling user habit migration: junit, junit5, assertj, jsonpath, rest-assured

5. ApiHug integration

6. IDE support

7. 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.

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