Cucumber Tutorial

Welcome to this journey to learn Cucumber (Cucumber Tutorial). Cucumber is a buzz word these days. Every body is talking about how fun it is to use Cucumber. So lets understand more on Cucumber and Software development model it follows.

Cucumber is a testing framework which supports Behavior Driven Development (BDD). It lets us define application behavior in plain meaningful English text using a simple grammar defined by a language called Gherkin. Cucumber itself is written in Ruby, but it can be used to “test” code written in Ruby or other languages including but not limited to Java, C# and Python.

In this series of tutorials we will be covering

Cucumber Introduction

• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Cucumber & Behavior Driven Development
• Gherkin – Business Driven Development
• Cucumber BBD for Testing

Set Up Cucumber with Selenium in Eclipse

• Download and Install Java
• Download and Start Eclipse
• Install Cucumber Eclipse Plugin
• Download Cucumber for Eclipse
• Configure Eclipse with Cucumber

Cucumber Basics

• Cucumber Selenium Java Test
• Feature File
• JUnit Test Runner Class
• Gherkin Keywords
• Step Definition
• Cucumber Options

Data Driven Testing

• Parameterization in Cucumber
• Data Driven Testing Using Examples Keyword
• Data Tables in Cucumber
• Maps in Data Tables

Cucumber Annotations

• Tags
• Hooks
• Tagged Hooks
• Execution Order of Hooks
• Background Keyword

Cucumber Framework

• Cucumber Automation Framework
• Chapter 1 : End 2 End Selenium Test
• Chapter 2 : Convert Selenium Test to Cucumber
• Chapter 3 : Page Object Pattern using Selenium Page Factory
• Chapter 4 : Page Object Manager
• Chapter 5 : Config File Reader
• Chapter 6 : File Reader Manager
• Chapter 7 : WebDriver Manager
• Chapter 8 : Sharing Test Context with PicoContainer
• Chapter 9 : Before and After Hooks
• Chapter 10 : JSON Data Reader
• Chapter 11 : Wait Utility for Ajax Wait
• Chapter 12 : Sharing Scenario Context
• Chapter 13 : Cucumber Report Plugins
• Chapter 14 : Extend Reports with Screenshots
• Chapter 15 : Run Test from Command Line