You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and
in Cucumber Recipes we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field
experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this
book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific
situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical
recipes, you'll test desktop, web, mobile, and server applications
across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can
use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well.
The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write
executable specifications--documents that tell a clear story and also
happen to be working test code. We'll arm you with ready-rolled
solutions to real-world problems: your tests will run faster, read more
clearly, and work in any environment.
Our first tips will help you fit Cucumber into your workflow. Powerful
filters will tame tables full of test data, transforming them into the
format your application needs. Custom output formatters will generate
reports for any occasion. Continuous Integration servers will run your
Cucumber tests every time the code changes. Next, you'll find recipes
tailored to the platform you're running on. Ever wanted to know how to
test a Grails app from Cucumber? Need to put a Windows program through
its paces? How about a mobile app running on Android or iOS? We'll show
you how to do all of these.
Throughout the book, you'll see how to make Cucumber sing as you
interoperate with different platforms, languages, and environments. From
embedded circuits to Python and PHP web apps, Cucumber has something for
you.
What You Need:
You'll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber and Ruby. Individual
recipes may have additional requirements; for example, a recipe on
Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver.
We've written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7,
plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well, but these are the
ones we test with.
