Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers.




JBehave is described as 'Framework for Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). BDD evolution of test-driven development (TDD) and acceptance-test driven design, and is intended to make these practices more accessible and intuitive to newcomers and experts alike' and is an app. There are four alternatives to JBehave for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Ruby and Jira apps. The best JBehave alternative is Karate, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JBehave are Cucumber, BDDX and SpecFlow.
Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers.




Cucumber is a tool that executes plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests. Collaboration tool for executable specifications which is based on "gherkin"-parser Gherkin is the language that Cucumber understand.


SpecFlow aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications and examples to the underlying implementation.

