Essentially, day-to-day BDD activity is a three-step, iterative process: First, take a small upcoming change to the system -- a User Story -- and talk about concrete examples of the new …

Step definitions. A Step Definition is a method with an expression that links it to one or more Gherkin steps. When Cucumber executes a Gherkin step in a scenario, it will look for a …

The purpose of Given steps is to put the system in a known state before the user (or external system) starts interacting with the system (in the When steps). Avoid talking about user …

Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). If you're new to Behaviour-Driven Development read our BDD introduction first. What is Cucumber? Ok, now …

Helper methods allow you to re(use) actions in steps and avoid writing multiple step definitions for similar behaviours. You write a helper method for actions like logging in to your application and …

Your step definitions are the glue to the actual code (in this example, a factory method to decide which page to open). They can also be used to hide implementation details by calling several …

In this brief tutorial you've seen how to install Cucumber, how to follow the BDD process to develop a method, and how to use that method to evaluate multiple scenarios! Edit this page …

Sep 5, 2019 · Co-author of The BDD Books Over the years that we have been using Gherkin, our approach to writing scenarios has evolved. Because Gherkin is very close to natural language …

If you want to combine several actions into one step, extract individual (helper) methods and call these methods from your step definition. You want to strive to keep your steps atomic as much …

The most common option is to run Cucumber from the command line. By default, Cucumber will treat anything ending in.js under the root directory as a step definition file. Thus, a step …