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Instant Cucumber BDD How-to

By : Wayne Ye
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Instant Cucumber BDD How-to

By: Wayne Ye

Overview of this book

<p>Cucumber is a Behavior Driven Design framework, which allows a developer to write specification tests which then tests that the program works as it should. It is a different development paradigm, as it involves writing what the program should do first, then you develop until it passes the tests.<br /><br />Instant Cucumber BDD How-to will cover basics of Cucumber in a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) style and explain the essence of Cucumber, describe how to write Cucumber features to drive development in a real project, and also describe many pro tips for writing good Cucumber features and steps. Cucumber is a very fun and cool tool for writing automated acceptance tests to support software development in a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) style.<br /><br />Instant Cucumber BDD How-to will highlight Cucumber's central role in a development approach called Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), describe how to write Cucumber features to drive development in a real project, and finally introduce some famous third-party libraries used inline with Cucumber.</p> <p>It will show you how to carry out all the tasks associated with BDD using Cucumber and write basic Cucumber steps. It will assist you in using Pro tips for writing expressive Gherkin and implement guidelines for writing DRY steps. You'll learn how to use Cucumber's Gherkin to describe the behavior customers want from the system in a plain language.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Credits

Author

Wayne Ye

Reviewers

Ming Jin

Cui Liqiang

Acquisition Editor

James Jones

Commissioning Editor

Ameya Sawant

Technical Editor

Veronica Fernandes

Project Coordinator

Joel Goveya

Proofreader

Maria Gould

Graphics

Ronak Dhruv

Production Coordinator

Arvindkumar Gupta

Cover Work

Arvindkumar Gupta

Cover image

Aditi Gajjar