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

0. Introduction

01 - A common language for business and developers
02 - What you should know
03 - Setup - JDK
04 - Setup - Eclipse
05 - Setup - Cucumber Eclipse plugin and Maven
06 - Create a Maven project

1. Behavior-Driven Development

07 - Basic concepts - BDD
08 - Basic concepts - TDD and ATDD
09 - The big picture

2. Cucumber Workflow

10 - User story session - The problem domain
11 - User story session - Concrete examples
12 - Feature file
13 - Step definitions - Generate code
14 - Step definitions - First domain object
15 - Step definitions - Next scenario step
16 - Step definitions - Testing scenario
17 - Running a test - Create a test runner
18 - Running a test - Maven test

3. Regular Expressions Match

19 - Regular expressions basics
20 - Update price attribute
21 - Update item name attribute
22 - Use old Cucumber version
23 - More Cucumber expressions

4. Additional Cucumber Concepts

24 - Cucumber tags - Add a tag
25 - Cucumber tags - Multiple tags
26 - Cucumber tags - Maven test with tags
27 - Background - Add background
28 - Background - Duplicate item
29 - Background - Execution flow
30 - Cucumber hooks - Adding hooks
31 - Cucumber hooks - Tagged hooks
32 - Cucumber reports - Generate reports
33 - Use monochrome and dryRun parameters

5. Data Table and Scenario Outline

34 - Data table - Adding a data table
35 - Data table - Read list of strings
36 - Data table - List of list of strings
37 - Data table - List of maps
38 - Data table - Wrapping up
39 - Scenario outline - Add scenario outline
40 - Scenario outline - Adding examples table
41 - Scenario outline - Implement code
42 - Scenario outline - Running test

6. Cucumber Advance Features

43 - Web browser automation
44 - Add Selenium dependencies
45 - Invoke a page - Extract values
46 - Invoke a page - Read results
47 - Invoke a page - Running test
48 - Best practices

7. Miscellaneous

49 - Continuous integration and BDD
50 - SpecFlow - Installation
51 - SpecFlow - Running tests

Conclusion

52 - Next steps