Cucumber Essential Training

Learn how to use Cucumber to implement agile practices like behavior-driven development (BDD), test-driven development (TDD), and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).

Introduction

• A common language for business and developers
• What you should know
• Setup: JDK
• Setup: Eclipse
• Setup: Cucumber Eclipse plugin and Maven
• Create a Maven project

1. Behavior-Driven Development

• Basic concepts: BDD
• Basic concepts: TDD and ATDD
• The big picture

2. Cucumber Workflow

• User story session: The problem domain
• User story session: Concrete examples
• Feature file
• Step definitions: Generate code
• Step definitions: First domain object
• Step definitions: Next scenario step
• Step definitions: Testing scenario
• Running a test: Create a test runner
• Running a test: Maven test

3. Regular Expressions Match

• Regular expressions basics
• Update price attribute
• Update item name attribute
• Use old Cucumber version
• More Cucumber expressions

4. Additional Cucumber Concepts

• Cucumber tags: Add a tag
• Cucumber tags: Multiple tags
• Cucumber tags: Maven test with tags
• Background: Add background
• Background: Duplicate item
• Background: Execution flow
• Cucumber hooks: Adding hooks
• Cucumber hooks: Tagged hooks
• Cucumber reports: Generate reports
• Use monochrome and dryRun parameters

5. Data Table and Scenario Outline

• Data table: Adding a data table
• Data table: Read list of strings
• Data table: List of list of strings
• Data table: List of maps
• Data table: Wrapping up
• Scenario outline: Add scenario outline
• Scenario outline: Adding examples table
• Scenario outline: Implement code
• Scenario outline: Running test

6. Cucumber Advance Features

• Web browser automation
• Add Selenium dependencies
• Invoke a page: Extract values
• Invoke a page: Read results
• Invoke a page: Running test
• Best practices

7. Miscellaneous

• Continuous integration and BDD
• SpecFlow: Installation
• SpecFlow: Running tests

Conclusion

• Next steps