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. You need Cucumber: a
testing, communication, and requirements tool-all rolled into one. All
the code in this book is updated for Cucumber 2.4, Rails 5, and RSpec
3.5.
Express your customers' wild ideas as a set of clear, executable
specifications that everyone on the team can read. Feed those examples
into Cucumber and let it guide your development. Build just the right
code to keep your customers happy. You can use Cucumber to test almost
any system or any platform.
Get started by using the core features of Cucumber and working with
Cucumber's Gherkin DSL to describe-in plain language-the behavior your
customers want from the system. Then write Ruby code that interprets
those plain-language specifications and checks them against your
application. Next, consolidate the knowledge you've gained with a worked
example, where you'll learn more advanced Cucumber techniques, test
asynchronous systems, and test systems that use a database. Recipes
highlight some of the most difficult and commonly seen situations the
authors have helped teams solve. With these patterns and techniques,
test Ajax-heavy web applications with Capybara and Selenium, REST web
services, Ruby on Rails applications, command-line applications, legacy
applications, and more.
Written by the creator of Cucumber and the co-founders of Cucumber Ltd.,
this authoritative guide 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,
Cucumber 2.4, Rails 5, and RSpec 3.5
