Your customers want rock-solid, bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they can't 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; it's a testing, communication, and requirements tool - all rolled into one.
We'll show you how to express your customers' wild ideas as a set of clear, executable specifications that everyone on the team can read. You'll learn how to feed those examples into Cucumber and let it guide your development. You'll 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. You'll learn how to use Cucumber's Gherkin DSL to describe-- in plain language - the behavior your customers want from the system. You'll learn how to write Ruby code that interprets those plain language specifications and checks them against your application. In Part 2, you'll 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, you'll find a selection of recipes for some of the most common situations you'll encounter using Cucumber in the wild. You'll 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.
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Ruby 1.9.2 and upwards
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Matt Wynne works as an independent consultant, helping teams like yours learn to enjoy delivering software to the best of their abilities. In his spare time he is a core developer on the Cucumber project, and he blogs at http://blog.mattwynne.net and tweets as @mattwynne
Aslak Hellesoy is the founder of the Cucumber project and works as a senior developer with DRW Trading in London, writing very fast and very smart software in several different programming languages. In his previous job he was the Chief Scientist of BEKK Consulting in Norway. Aslak tweets as @aslak_hellesoy.
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By A. Goundry
Format:Paperback
Cucumber has changed the working lives of developers, testers and businesses. It's provided a language that has enabled developers and testers to specify what a company actually wants, in a language that everyone understands and can engage with. It's provided the tools to check a piece of software against these wants. It's power is in the combination of clarity of requirements + a testing tool that automatically tests against these requirements. It's a bit of a dream. Plus, the toolkit just works, incredibly well.
This book is the ONLY place to start your journey with Cucumber and the only place to return for clarity and direction. Matt and Aslak create and maintain the Cucumber tool and understand it's intention and implementation.
Enjoy!
This book is the ONLY place to start your journey with Cucumber and the only place to return for clarity and direction. Matt and Aslak create and maintain the Cucumber tool and understand it's intention and implementation.
Enjoy!
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By drachen
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The book is essential for those who wants to play with cucumber.
Good organization and the topics cover the essential of Cucumber features. Rrecommend.
Good organization and the topics cover the essential of Cucumber features. Rrecommend.
By Dan
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This book is a great overview of Cucumber! However if you are new to BDD then I would recommend also buying The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends (Facets of Ruby) as it helps clarify the line between acceptance tests and unit tests.
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