Cucumber Tutorial

Cucumber is a testing tool that supports Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework. It defines application behavior using simple English text, defined by a language called Gherkin.

Cucumber allows automation functional validation that is easily read and understood. Cucumber was initially implemented in Ruby and then extended to Java framework. Both the tools support native JUnit.

This tutorial is fairly comprehensive and covers all the necessary aspects on Cucumber using examples for easy understanding.

Audience

This tutorial is designed for software professionals such as analysts, developers, and testers who are keen on learning the fundamentals of Cucumber and want to put it into practice.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you need to have a basic knowledge on testing as well as some hands-on experience of some testing tools. You should have a commanding knowledge on Java, and some familiarity with JUnit and Ruby.