 | Give me an example (8 min)Learn how to gather examples for Cucumber through conversations with your stakeholders. |
 | Your first scenario (13 min)Write and run your first Cucumber scenario. |
 | Matching Steps (16 min)Learn just enough regular expressions to write great scenarios. |
 | Cleaning up (17 min)Learn how to refactor your Cucumber scenarios and step definitions to make them maintainable over time. |
 | Loops (17 min)Learn how create more expressive Cucumber scenarios with more advanced Gherkin syntax. |
 | Configuring Cucumber (11 min)Learn how to use tags, tables, the command line options, plugins and more. |
 | Details (18 min)Learn about the different language styles, levels of details and abstraction in your scenarios. |
 | Problems and Solutions (15 min)Learn about Example Mapping, Support Code and Modelling by Example. |
 | Acceptance Tests vs Unit tests (25 min)In which we discover missing unit tests and learn the relative benefits of acceptance tests and unit tests. |
 | Web Automation with Selenium (31 min)Automate the web from Cucumber. Learn about the test pyramid and the benefits of hexagonal architecture. |
Who is it for?
This course is for testers and developers who want to learn Cucumber and the fundamentals of BDD. You'll accomplish hands-on technical tasks, like writing code in text editors and running Cucumber from the command-line interface.
You should be reasonably comfortable with these tools or keen to learn about them.
By the end of the course you'll know how to build your own Cucumber suites and how to drive a web browser using Cucumber.
You'll learn how to:
- Run discovery workshops to elicit requirements from your stakeholders
- Describe requirements using Gherkin, the specification language for Cucumber
- Write step definitions to match any Gherkin step
- Use Cucumber to drive development, cleaning up your code as you go
- Drive a browser using Selenium WebDriver
- Keep your stakeholders engaged in the BDD process
- Configure Cucumber to work just the way you want it
- Explain the benefits of BDD to your boss or co-workers
- Keep your test suite fast and lean
Plus many more pro tips directly from the Cucumber core team…
