The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers

About this book

Your customers want rock-solid bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they cant always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; its a testing communication and requirements tool - all rolled into one. Well show you how to express your customers wild ideas as a set of clear executable specifications that everyone on the team can read. Youll learn how to feed those examples into Cucumber and let it guide your development. Youll build just the right code to keep your customers happy and not a line more. The first part of the book teaches you how to use the core features of Cucumber. Youll learn how to use Cucumbers Gherkin DSL to describe-- in plain language - the behavior your customers want from the system. Youll learn how to write Ruby code that interprets those plain language specifications and checks them against your application. In Part 2 youll consolidate the knowledge you just gained with a worked example. Although it was born in the Ruby community you can use Cucumber to test almost any system from a simple shell script or a Perl script to enterprise PHP or a Java web application. In Part 3 youll find a selection of recipes for some of the most common situations youll encounter using Cucumber in the wild. Youll learn how to test Ajax-heavy web applications with Capybara and Selenium REST web services Ruby on Rails applications command-line applications legacy applications and lots more! Written by the creator of Cucumber and one of its most experienced users and contributors The Cucumber Book is an authoritative guide that will give you and your team all the knowledge you need to start using Cucumber with confidence. What You Need: Windows Mac OS X (with XCode) or Linux Ruby 1.9.2 and upwards