Cucumber Recipes

Sonik ChopraPMI ACP, PMPAgile Coach, ManagerPitney Bowes Software

What is Cucumber?

• Serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format.

• Written by the team, in a language understood by all.

• Cucumber is a Behaviour Driven Development tool.

Agenda

• Introduction to BDD• BDD Vs TDD• Cucumber Features• Demo: The real power of Cucumber• Integration with different languages and

platforms

Behaviour Driven Development

Implementing an application by describing its behaviour by the perspective of its stakeholders..

Dan North

But don’t we already do this??

What we really do….As a professional, I want to search for a conference in India so that I can upgrade my skillset.

? User Stories are High Level? Where to start with TDD?? What to Test and what not to Test? What to call the tests?? How much to test in one go?

Restricted view on Behaviour

Difference in thinking

SITELOCATION

PLACE

AREA

LOCALITY

DEV QA BA CLIENT PO

Increased Ambiguity LOST

BDD – Outside In Pull Based

VISION

GOAL

FEATURE

STORY

SCENARIO

CODE

Scenarios and Examples in Ubiquitous Language

HAVING CONVERSATION IS MORE IMPORTANT

TALKING THROUGH EXAMPLES HELP DISCOVER

CONSIDERS MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS

BDD Vs TDD

• Development Methodology Vs Development Technique

• Business Driven Vs Design Approach• Customer Writing Tests Vs Developers writing

Tests• Focus on Behavioural Aspect Vs Implementation

Aspect

Cucumber Example…

Story: As a user I want to login with my details So that I can get access to the site

Scenario: User uses wrong password

Given a username 'jdoe' And a password 'letmein'When the user logs in with username and passwordThen the login form should be shown again

GHERKIN LANGUAGE

Gherkin Supports 40+ Languages.

Cucumber at a glance…

Written in plain English Language using Gherkin

Source Code in Ruby Or Java Or Dot Net etc

DEMO of Cucumber Capabilities

Cucumber for Dot Net

SpecFlow

Iron Ruby

Cuke4Nuke

Integration with other platforms

• TestBot Or Hydra : Tools used to run Cucumber tests in parallel. You can also use Jenkins and create slave machines.

• Relish: A service to publish cucumber features as documentation

• FactoryGirl GEM: Test Data Builder• Easy to Integrate with CI environment.

Cucumber Add Ons

Summary

• Cucumber is a BDD tool.• One stop shop for Requirements,

Development, Scenarios and Acceptance test.• Written by the team, in a language understood

by all.• Easy to integrate with different environments.• Supported in multiple languages and

platforms.

Thank You

Sonik ChopraPMI ACP, PMPAgile Coach, ManagerPitney Bowes Software

sonikchopra@gmail.comhttp://in.linkedin.com/in/sonikchopraTwitter: @sonikchopra

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