BDD - Cucumber Java

This comprehensive course covers all the essential principles to get you up and running in Behaviour-Driven Development of Cucumber and WebDriver Tests.

Designed for beginners of BDD and Cucumber, it takes the newcomer through all the basic techniques of writing Feature Files in Gherkin, to writing the associated Step Definitions and code in Cucumber & WebDriver to executing from the command line.

Throughout the course practical examples are demonstrated, and the delegates get to practice what they have learned in each chapter against a web training application.

By the end of the course you should have a thorough understanding of how to develop well-written Feature Files and Scenarios, how to manage Step Definitions and write associated methods, how to organise the Cucumber project and how to integrate into the POM framework.

Who Should Attend?

  • This course is suitable for newcomers to BDD and Cucumber.

A basic understanding of writing Selenium WebDriver Scripts is required. Some programming experience would be advantageous – the course is based on using WebDriver with Java & Junit, but does not teach you Java as you can use a variety of programming languages with WebDriver and Cucumber.

Exam Details

There is no exam as part of this course.

Objectives

  • Understand the required installs and libraries to use Cucumber
  • Understand how to structure your automated Cucumber project
  • Gain a full understanding of how to write good Gherkin and Step Definitions
  • Understand how re-factor and re-use common methods for Steps
  • By the end of the course you should have a thorough understanding of how to develop well-written Feature Files and Scenarios, How to manage Step Definitions and write associated Methods, how to organise the Cucumber project and how to integrate into the POM framework

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Please note: this course runs on demand so the price is TBC. It can be arranged to run on-site at your offices as Training for Teams or as a public course if there is sufficient interest.

Please contact us for more details.

Course Content and Agenda

This course covers nine key areas over two days:

  • A background to BDD and its benefits
  • The process of BDD
  • An overview of the tools available and terminology
  • Feature files
  • Introduction to the Gherkin language, basic syntax
  • Using the background fixture
  • Parameters
  • Doc strings
  • Examples and data tables
  • Using tags to organise execution
  • Commenting
  • Cucumber Eclipse plugin
  • Adding the Maven Project dependencies
  • Creating a project structure
  • Creating a feature
  • Formatting and execution of feature files
  • Creating our Test Classes
  • Using prototype step definitions
  • Fixing errors for executing feature files
  • Creating step definition Methods
  • Expanding Methods with Parameters
  • Step Definition syntax
  • Using Regular Expressions
  • Scenario Outline
  • In-line Step Table Iterating
  • Using multiple annotations for one Method
  • Re-using Methods for more than one Scenario
  • Using Cucumber
  • Creating a Junit Runner Class
  • Using Tags
  • Results & Reporting
  • Using Cucumber & WebDriver under the Page Object Model
  • Using Base Classes & Inheritance
  • Command line execution
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