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Cucumber Cookbook

By : Shankar Garg

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Overview of this book

This book is intended for business and development personnel who want to use Cucumber for behavior-driven development and test automation. Readers with some familiarity with Cucumber will find this book of most benefit. Since the main objective of this book is to create test automation frameworks, previous experience in automation will be helpful.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Writing Feature Files

Introduction

Writing your first Feature file with one Scenario

Creating Scenarios with different Steps

Creating a Scenario with the And and But keywords

Writing a Feature file with multiple Scenarios

Adding Backgrounds to Feature files

Sending multiple arguments in Steps

Using complex data types to store data

Implementing Scenario Outlines

Creating a Feature file in a language other than English

Combining Scenarios, Backgrounds, and Scenario Outlines

2. Creating Step Definitions

Introduction

Creating your first Step Definitions file

Identifying Duplicate and Ambiguous Step Definitions

Using Regular Expressions to optimize Step Definitions

Using Optional Capture and Noncapture Groups

Transforming Data Tables to parse the test data

Implementing data table diffs to compare tables

Using Doc Strings to parse big data as one chunk

Combining Doc Strings and Scenario Outlines

Defining String transformations for better conversions

3. Enabling Fixtures

Introduction

Tagging

ANDing and ORing Tags

Adding Hooks to Cucumber code

Tagging the Hooks

ANDing and ORing tagged Hooks

4. Configuring Cucumber

Introduction

Integrating Cucumber with JUnit

Overriding the Cucumber Options

Running Strict and Running Dry

Configuring the Cucumber Console output

Directing the Cucumber output to a file

Configuring the naming conventions

5. Running Cucumber

Introduction

Integrating Cucumber with Maven

Running Cucumber from the Terminal

Overriding Options from the Terminal

Integrating Cucumber with Jenkins and GitHub

Running Cucumber test cases in parallel

6. Building Cucumber Frameworks

Introduction

Building a Web Automation framework

Building a Mobile Automation framework

Building a REST Automation framework

Index

Cucumber Cookbook

By : Shankar Garg

Cucumber Cookbook

By: Shankar Garg

Overview of this book

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