Cucumber
Make The Most
Giridhar Rajkumar
Giridhar Rajkumar
Test Automation Architect
Live in Norwich, United Kingdom
Write articles & books on Test Automation
Speak at several meetups & conferences
Love to cycle & most recently, running
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http://giridharrajkumar.com
@vgrk2017
About Me
Agenda
Brief intro to Cucumber
Brief intro to Gherkins
Gherkins - Best Practices
Cucumber v6 Features - Demo
Recap
Cucumber JVM v6 Features
Questions
Cucumber Courses
1. Cucumber with Java -
https://testautomationu.applitools.com/cucumber-java-tutorial/
2. Cucumber with JavaScript by Gavin Samuels-
https://testautomationu.applitools.com/cucumber-javascript-tutorial/
Cucumber - An Intro
What is BDD?
Behavior-driven development (BDD) is an Agile software development process that encourages collaboration among developers, QA and non-technical or business participants in a software project. (Wikipedia)
BDD is NOT test automation
Cucumber - An Intro
What is Cucumber?
A cucumber is a tool based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework which is used to write acceptance tests for the web application.
(ref - https://softwaretestinghelp.com)
Flavours of Cucumber
Cucumber Open
CucumberStudio
Open Source
Commercial
Cucumber for JIRA
Commercial
CucumberStudio
Cloud based & On-prem setup
Gherkin Editor
Test Management
Historical Data
Single source of truth
Excellent Living Documentation
Benefits
Strong collaboration between technical & non-technical people
Easily understandable acceptance tests
Automated acceptance tests
Gherkin formatted acceptance criteria
Living Documentation
Gherkins - Annotations
Gherkin Scenarios should not be written from the team member like the developer, tester perspective. It should always be user perspective
Gherkins - Best Practices
Golden rules
1. In a given scenario, there should be only one Given, When and Then steps
2. Maximum usage of 2 And steps
3. Scenario should not exceed more than 5 steps
Gherkins - Best Practices
Gherkins - Best Practices
Wrong
Right
Gherkins & BDD
Misunderstandings
1. Testers should write GWTs (Given When Then)
2. BDD means Business Driven Development
3. Gherkins are not your Test Steps
4. BDD means Test Automation
Cucumber JVM v6
New Keywords
Rules
Ability
Scenarios
Scenario Template
Business Need
Online Reporting
Demo
Recap
Brief intro to Cucumber
Brief intro to Gherkins
Gherkins - Best Practices
Cucumber v6 Features - Demo
Cucumber JVM v6 Features
Questions?
