BDD with Cucumber and Selenium Web Driver Course

Introduction to BDD

A background to BDD and its benefits. The process of BDD. An overview of the tools available, terminology.

Introduction to Gherkin

Feature Files, introduction to the Gherkin language, basic syntax

More Gherkin

Using the Background fixture, Parameters, Doc Strings, Examples and Data Tables, using Tags to organise execution, commenting

Installation of the Cucumber Framework

Cucumber Eclipse plugin, installing the Cucumber, Gherkin and other dependent libraries. Creating a project structure, creating a Feature, formatting and execution of Feature Files

Step Definitions & Code Binding

Creating our Test Classes, Using prototype step definitions, fixing errors for executing feature files, creating step definition Methods, expanding Methods with Parameters

Deconstructing Step Definitions and Regular Expressions

Step Definition syntax, using Regular Expressions

Extending the code

In-line Step Table Iterating, using multiple annotations for one Method, re-using Methods for more than one Scenario

Running the Cucumber Tests

Using Cucumber, creating a junit Runner Class, Using Tags, Results & Reporting

Integrating Cucumber into the POM

Using Cucumber & WebDriver under the Page Object Model. Using Base Classes & Inheritance, Command line execution

Technologies used

• Eclipse
• Cucumber JVM
• WebDriver (Java Bindings)
• Java
• Junit