Cucumber Essential Training (2019)

Course details

Cucumber is a tool for behavior-driven development (BDD), which allows you to write assertions in plain language that are then testable by code. By making written requirements actually testable, it provides a common language between business and engineering professionals. In this course, learn how to use Cucumber to implement agile practices like BDD, test-driven development (TDD), and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Instructor Shashi Shekhar goes over the basics of BDD, TDD, and ATDD, and then dives into the Cucumber workflow. He also shows how to map user stories to features, add hooks, generate reports, and apply techniques to make BDD maintainable.

Learning objectives
How Cucumber can be used for BDD, TDD, and ATDD
Installing and configuring Cucumber
Mapping user stories to features
Adding hooks
Generating reports
Adding a data table
Adding Selenium dependencies
Applying techniques to make BDD maintainable

Concepts

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

Behavior-Driven Development

Basic concepts - BDD
Basic concepts - TDD and ATDD
The big picture

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

Regular Expressions Match

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

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

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

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

Miscellaneous

Continuous integration and BDD
SpecFlow - Installation
SpecFlow - Running tests

Conclusion

Next steps