Questions tagged [cucumber]
Cucumber is a tool for running automated acceptance tests written in a behavior-driven development (BDD) style. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_%28software%29
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Reusing simple BDD testing for more complex test scenarios
I am currently learning about BDD (Cucumber/Gherkin) in test automation. I am wondering about reusing simpler test scenarios or step definitions for more complex scenarios. Specifically, I am working ...
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What is the best practice for BDD?
The web application I am working on is currently (partially) tested automatically.
All scenarios are hardcoded in custom code in this way :
WebElement bt = findButtonWithLabel("foo")
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Springboot (Java) - Is mandatory for BDD the use of Cucumber?
I was wondering if its a requirement to consider BDD the use of Cucumber framework or other framework of test abstraction.
Because I was playing around with @SpringbootTest and TestContainers(both ...
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How can I unit test this code [closed]
How can I unit test a codebase which contains classes that includes two or three methods. In general these methods are too long. The methods contain lots of tasks like filtering datasets and a ...
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What levels to test on with BDD/Cucumber?
I'm currently getting into BDD/Cucumber and I ask myself: On which levels is it good to use?
There are the test levels (from the testing pyramid):
User Interface
Integration
Unit
You can apply tests ...
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Is Cucumber appropriate for expansive corner case specification?
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So, is using Cucumber to (near)exhaustively define complex interactions of requirements by example an abuse of the tool?
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Is it appropriate use of Cucumber (or any other ...
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Should I unit test my Cucumber helper functions/classes?
I'm very new at writing Cucumber tests. I'm writing Ruby helper functions to assist Cucumber step definitions. Should there be a separate set of tests to test my helper functions i.e. unit tests?
The ...
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How does Behavior Driven Development improves clarity when natural languages are ambiguous?
I'm currently exploring BDD test frameworks like cucumber and I find it curious when people say
since the feature files are in simple natural language it improves
clarity and gives a clear vision
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Can integration tests be run asynchronously with Maven?
Because I work at a company with lots and lots of computers, I find it to be a little ironic that it takes half an hour to cut a release of the latest version of our software.
The bottleneck seems ...
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BDD - how to measure value / ROI of collaboration
When considering the value or ROI that we reap from our efforts in implementing and using BDD it is realitively straight forward to measure your savings for the test automation element. You can ...
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Migrate legacy requirements to BDD
Q: What is the best way to move a large company to Cucumber with at least 15 years of legacy software requirements maintained in a requirements database?
Currently considering:
1) Migrate Everything
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Which style to use for features that are not directly driven by humans when using BDD Gherkin language?
Should they be written same way as human workflows, first person "I have entered..." style language etc.? Is the user effectively a gender-less "AI"?
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BDD, Cucumber best practices
I'm trying to understand some best practices when it comes to BDD and Cucumber. I've only recently started to use it,
and the first feature I have written a test for is testing a search feature, more ...
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Gherkin: What is a reasonable number of scenarios per feature?
I'm keen to get thoughts on a reasonable number of scenarios per feature in Gherkin.
At what point do you start to thing about re-organising the feature to keep the number of scenarios at a ...
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Should selenium tests be written in imperative style?
Is an automation tester supposed to know concepts of OOPS and design patterns to write Tests in a way where changes & code re-use are possible?
For example, I pick up Java to write cucumber step ...
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