Cucumber Steps and Scenario Development Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
Cucumber has various strategies and implementations that provide users the ability of creating expressive scenarios. In this course, you'll learn Gherkin and the ability of creating expressive scenarios optimizing test outputs.
Target Audience
Software developers, QA, and business analysts who want to learn how to use Cucumber-Ruby to support behavior-driven software development
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.4
Lesson Objectives Cucumber Steps and Scenario Development
start the course
describe the purpose of Gherkin in Test-driven Development and benefits along with the syntax used
recognize the purpose of using features in Gherkin files and how to implement it to a project
define steps and step definitions and how it is implemented in an example
use features such as capture groups and wildcards and multiple arguments in Cucumber steps
describe the available result states for a Cucumber scenario and provide examples of scenarios containing steps that lead to these results
describe a background section in a Cucumber feature file to outline steps common to all scenarios
use doc strings and data tables for data that doesn't fit on one line in Cucumber scenarios
use scenario outlines to define steps for Cucumber scenarios
use nest steps in Cucumber scenarios
describe the use of transforms to remove duplication in Cucumber step definitions
describe the Cucumber World object and refactor steps into Ruby helper methods that are added to the World
describe the uses for directories and tagging Cucumber scenarios at feature and scenario level
recognize the implementations of steps and step definitions, and how expressive scenarios work
Course Number: sd_cucb_a02_it_enus
Expertise Level
Beginner