Cucumber Essential Training

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, Cucumber provides a common language for 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 essentials of the Cucumber workflow. Along the way, gather tips on how to map user stories to features, add hooks, generate reports, and apply techniques to make BDD maintainable.

Learning objectives
Integrate Cucumber into your test-driven development.
Leverage Cucumber in tandem with Playwright and similar tools for more comprehensive test coverage.
Combine hooks and data tables into your Cucumber workflows.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - A common language for business and developers
02 - What you should know

1. Behavior-Driven Development

03 - Basic concepts - BDD
04 - Basic concepts - TDD and ATDD
05 - The big picture
06 - Course setup

2. Cucumber Workflow

07 - User story session - The problem domain
08 - User story session - Concrete examples
09 - Feature file
10 - Step definitions - Generate code
11 - Step definitions - First domain object
12 - Step definitions - Next scenario step
13 - Step definitions - Test scenario

3. Regular Expressions Match

14 - Regular expression basics
15 - Update price attribute
16 - Update item name attribute
17 - More Cucumber expressions

4. Additional Cucumber Concepts

18 - Cucumber tags - Add a tag
19 - Cucumber tags - Multiple tags
20 - Cucumber tags - Maven test with tags
21 - Background - Add background
22 - Background - Duplicate item
23 - Background - Execution flow
24 - Cucumber hooks - Add hooks
25 - Cucumber hooks - Tag hooks
26 - Cucumber reports - Generate reports
27 - Use dryRun parameters

5. Data Table and Scenario Outline

28 - Data table - Add a data table
29 - Data table - Read list of strings
30 - Data table - List of list of strings
31 - Data table - List of maps
32 - Data table - Wrapping up
33 - Scenario outline - Add a scenario outline
34 - Scenario outline - Add an example table
35 - Scenario outline - Implement code
36 - Scenario outline - Run the test case

6. Cucumber Advanced Features

37 - Web browser automation
38 - Invoke a page - Test automation
39 - Invoke a page - Supply values
40 - Invoke a page - Read result
41 - Best practices in Cucumber

7. Miscellaneous

42 - Continuous integration and BDD
43 - Other tools overview
44 - Apply Playwright to Django

Conclusion

45 - Next steps