cucumber Archive

  • Alister Scott wrote a really nice paper on designing good specifications with examples/bdd scenarios/acceptance tests – focused on Cucumber, but applicable to other tools as well. He captured how to evolve horrible scripts into something quite useful. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re working with UI tests. Now...

    Designing good Cucumber feature files

    Alister Scott wrote a really nice paper on designing good specifications with examples/bdd scenarios/acceptance tests – focused on Cucumber, but applicable to other tools as well. He captured how to evolve horrible scripts into something quite useful. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re working with UI tests. Now...

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  • Today at the CukeUp conference in London, Aslak Hellesøy spoke about the current development and plans for Cucumber. Hellesøy said that Cucumber had over 120000 downloads and he estimates that there are 20000 people using it now. Since it was first released, more than 300 people contributed to this open...

    The future of Cucumber

    Today at the CukeUp conference in London, Aslak Hellesøy spoke about the current development and plans for Cucumber. Hellesøy said that Cucumber had over 120000 downloads and he estimates that there are 20000 people using it now. Since it was first released, more than 300 people contributed to this open...

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  • It is my great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls, a free e-book and online step-by-step guide for Cucumber, a tool that is quickly becoming the weapon of choice for many agile teams when it comes to functional test automation, creating executable specifications and...

    The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls

    It is my great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls, a free e-book and online step-by-step guide for Cucumber, a tool that is quickly becoming the weapon of choice for many agile teams when it comes to functional test automation, creating executable specifications and...

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  • Here’s the video from my talk on Behaviour Driven Development and Acceptance Testing with Cucumber last week. In this talk, I go over the basics of Cucumber scenario structure and integration and show examples of using it with Ruby, .NET and Java applications. (scroll down to see the slides and...

    Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber: Video, Slides and Links

    Here’s the video from my talk on Behaviour Driven Development and Acceptance Testing with Cucumber last week. In this talk, I go over the basics of Cucumber scenario structure and integration and show examples of using it with Ruby, .NET and Java applications. (scroll down to see the slides and...

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  • Next agile testing user group evening in London will be on the 4th February, at the new Skills Matter offices. I’ll be presenting Cucumber a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. I will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber...

    Next agile testing UG in London: Cucumber on February 4th

    Next agile testing user group evening in London will be on the 4th February, at the new Skills Matter offices. I’ll be presenting Cucumber a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. I will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber...

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