Here you can find all posts and articles about our favourite open-source tool and framework Cucumber, and its Gherkin language. Cucumber is an open-source tool that supports the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework for writing automated acceptance tests.
Cucumber is the language syntax that allows these test scenarios to be writing in natural language that business managers can understand. This makes Cucumber and Gherkin a tool set that all development team stakeholders can understand.
Cucumber and Gherkin are widely used for web-based test automation which is an every of software testing that we have a lot of experience in. With Cucumber/Gherkin and Test Automation so closely related there is a chance that some of our blog posts in the Automation category might also talk about Cucumber and Gherkin. So take a moment to also review the Automation category.
Check out a few of our most popular posts:
The 3 most common mistakes writing Gherkin features
Complete Setup Guide for Ruby, Cucumber and Watir on Windows
How to write Gherkin scripts – A straightforward example
Our favourite test automation software in the world still remains Cucumber, but like all software, it has its limitations. In particular, at first glance it is pretty difficult to express workflows in Cucumber that contain branches. In this post, we explain how that can be achieved. Table of Contents The Problem with Branches First Scenarios …
In the past, I’ve worked on many projects where they either used Gherkin to describe functionality or to be used for test automation. However, my time in working on projects were we used Gherkin, I’ve notice three common Gherkin mistakes I see over and over again. You can have a look at how to write …
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Build great software faster! CI/CD is hot and is still gaining interest. Test Automation is obviously essential within any Continuous Integration setup in order to get test feedback often and fast. Within the test automation groups here at spriteCloud we have seen a lot of different setups. We have been integrating test automation into CI …
Set up and run your Cucumber and Selenium web tests on Gitlab-CI within minutes Read More »
Aside from the tools explained in this post, we have recently launched a test results dashboard designed to help you maintain an overview of all your automated tests. It’s called Calliope Pro, and we have a completely free (no credit card required) starter account for you to try it out. Have a look at the …
Complete Setup Guide for Ruby, Cucumber and Watir on Windows Read More »
Today we will take you through step-by-step how to successfully write and execute durable test scenarios using the Gherkin syntax, using the payment pathway of an eCommerce website as a straightforward example. If you have not set up your environment to allow you to use Cucumber and Gherkin for testing, be sure to follow our …
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This presentation will take you through the steps needed to set up a test automation project using Cucumber – a software tool that runs automated tests in the BBD style – in combination with Lapis Lazuli, a gem that provides Cucumber helper functions and scaffolding for easier web test automation suite development. To do this …
Getting started with test automation: Cucumber with Lapis Lazuli Read More »
How can you make Test Automation succeed? The biggest challenge to making a success out of test automation (TA) is maintainability. Maintainability of both your TA test suite as well as the TA infrastructure you are using is critical. I will explain both and describe how to get a successful TA setup on the API …
Successful test automation with Cucumber in the Cloud Read More »
Since starting spriteCloud we have been setting up test automation suites for our clients using the frameworks Cucumber and Selenium webdriver. We notice that more and more eCommerce companies also show interest in test automation and particularly this test setup. Also, since the holiday season is typically the biggest revenue generating period, follow our 5 …
Web testing with Cucumber for ecommerce applications Read More »
Introduction In last week’s post, we provided a complete setup guide for cucumber and related packages on Windows. This week, we’re going to cover the basics of cucumber. You’ll learn about what each file in a test suite means, and you will write test scenarios in Gherkin structured English.
Presentation on the history of spriteCloud and the advantages of our Test Automation Services
Here at spriteCloud we love cucumber. It’s a test framework for behaviour driven development (BDD), that is a development practice that includes testing during development. BDD is slightly different from other test methodologies in that it’s designed to be used in cross-functional teams. In this post I will briefly touch on these differences, and then …
Agile testing methods One of the keys to a successful agile software project is considering testing from the beginning. While in some projects, especially web projects, testing is sometimes an afterthought, one member of the team clicking away on the site for a while before deployment to production, which is not really a sustainable way …
