Cucumber Recipes: Automate Anything with BDD Tools and Techniques (Pragmatic Programmers) - Softcover

Dees, Ian; Wynne, Matt; Hellesoy, Aslak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937785017 ISBN 13: 9781937785017

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2013

Synopsis

You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and in Cucumber Recipes we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes, you'll test desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well. The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write executable specifications--documents that tell a clear story and also happen to be working test code. We'll arm you with ready-rolled solutions to real-world problems: your tests will run faster, read more clearly, and work in any environment. Our first tips will help you fit Cucumber into your workflow. Powerful filters will tame tables full of test data, transforming them into the format your application needs. Custom output formatters will generate reports for any occasion. Continuous Integration servers will run your Cucumber tests every time the code changes. Next, you'll find recipes tailored to the platform you're running on. Ever wanted to know how to test a Grails app from Cucumber? Need to put a Windows program through its paces? How about a mobile app running on Android or iOS? We'll show you how to do all of these. Throughout the book, you'll see how to make Cucumber sing as you interoperate with different platforms, languages, and environments. From embedded circuits to Python and PHP web apps, Cucumber has something for you. What You Need: You'll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber and Ruby. Individual recipes may have additional requirements; for example, a recipe on Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver. We've written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7, plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions m

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""There are many cookbooks but very few "chef books." Cucumber Recipes is inspiring enough to qualify as a chef book. If there's a will and a desire to use Cucumber in the process, Cucumber Recipes will more than likely show you a way...or many ways! From the basic to the esoteric, there's something for everyone in Cucumber Recipes.""--Michael Larsen, Senior quality assurance engineer, SocialText

""If you're automating tests of any kind using Cucumber, in any language, against any type of software, you need this cookbook. Its recipes will help you write useful, easily maintained tests for even the most puzzling scenarios. Like all good cookbooks, it teaches good techniques and principles that will help you improve all your tests. Best of all, you can actually code the examples yourself, and learn by doing.""--Lisa Crispin, Co-author, "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams"""

""Cucumber Recipes has testing solutions for a variety of platforms. It is a powerful book that gives us useful tips to use BDD in our chosen environment. To realize the power of BDD, Cucumber Recipes is a must on every software test engineer's table.""--Kavitha Naveen, Senior lead - quality engineering

About the Author

Ian Dees was first bitten by the programming bug in 1986 on a Timex Sinclair 1000, and has been having a blast in his software apprenticeship ever since. By day, Ian slings code, tests, and puns at a Portland-area test equipment manufacturer. By night, he converts espresso into programming books, including Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby and Using JRuby.

Matt Wynne works as an independent consultant, helping teams like yours learn to enjoy delivering software to the best of their abilities. In his spare time he is a core developer on the Cucumber project, and he blogs at http://blog.mattwynne.net and tweets as @mattwynne

Aslak Hellesoy is the founder of the Cucumber project and works as a senior developer with DRW Trading in London, writing very fast and very smart software in several different programming languages. In his previous job he was the Chief Scientist of BEKK Consulting in Norway. Aslak tweets as @aslak_hellesoy.

About this edition

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1937785017
• ISBN 13: 9781937785017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250