The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers (Pragmatic Programmers)

Matt Wynne and Aslak Hellesøy show you how to express your customers’

wild ideas as a set of clear, executable specifications that everyone

on the team can read. You’ll learn how to feed those examples into

Cucumber and let it guide your development. You’ll build just the

right code to keep your customers happy, and not a line more. Although

it was born in the Ruby community, you can use Cucumber to test almost

any system, from a simple shell script or Perl script, to web

applications written in PHP, Java, or any platform.

In Part 1, you’ll get started by using the core features of Cucumber

and working with Cucumber’s Gherkin DSL to describe—in plain

language—the behavior your customers want from the system. Then you’ll

write Ruby code that interprets those plain-language specifications

and checks them against your application. If you’re new to Cucumber,

this part of the book will teach you everything you need to know to

get started.

In Part 2, you’ll consolidate the knowledge you’ve gained with a

worked example, where you’ll learn more advanced Cucumber techniques.

You’ll also learn how to test asynchronous systems and systems that use a database.

In Part 3, you’ll find a selection of recipes for some of the most difficult and commonly seen situations the authors have helped teams solve. With these patterns and techniques, you’ll learn how to test Ajax-heavy web applications with Capybara and Selenium, REST web services, Ruby on Rails applications, command-line applications,

legacy applications, and more.

Written by the creator of Cucumber and one of its most experienced

users and contributors, The Cucumber Book is an authoritative guide

that will give you and your team all the knowledge you need to start

using Cucumber with confidence.

What You Need: Windows, Mac OS X (with XCode) or Linux

Ruby 1.9.2 and upwards

Audience:

This book contains comprehensive Cucumber information for beginning to advanced Cucumber users. If you’re a developer planning to use Cucumber with RSpec, you might also want to look at The Rspec Book.