Test-Driven Development using Cucumber

Course Description

Cucumber is the leading framework for TDD and BDD in Java, and it ties in well with a host of application types and Java technology APIs. You`ll learn all about these integrations during the course.
3 days
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Prerequisites

Familiarity coding and/or testing Java applications

what you`ll learn

TDD and BDD essentials
Achieving BDD using Cucumber
Understanding Cucumber API and features
Using Cucumber with databases, DI containers, and Web/REST applications
Testing legacy code

Introduction to TDD/BDD and Cucumber

Getting started with behaviour-driven development
BDD vs TDD
Overview of Cucumber
How Cucumber works
Tooling up

Getting Started with Cucumber

Creating features
Creating step definitions
Implementing step definitions
Testing our classes
Making assertions
Making the tests work

Getting Started with Gherkin

Overview of Gerkhin
Features
Scenarios
Comments
Spoken languages

Step Definitions External Perspective

Steps and step definitions
Capturing arguments
Multiple captures
Achieving more flexibility
Returning results

Cucumber Best Practices

Issues
Collaboration
Writing maintainable tests
Guidelines for preventing defects

Step Definitions Internal Perspective

Domain model
Transforms
Custom helper methods
Dependency injection

Enterprise Development

Asynchronous architecture
Message queues
Asynchronous components

Databases

Interactive database development
Refactoring to use a database
Writing and writing to the database
Cleaning the database

Dependency Injection

Overview of DI
DI in Cucumber
PicoContainer
Guice
Weld CDI

Web Applications

Overview of Selenium WebDriver
Interacting with the DOM
Handling failures
Ajax

REST Web Services

Overview of REST
REST and Cucumber
Guidelines and best practices

Testing Legacy Code

The challenge of legacy code
Refactoring techniques
Mocking techniques
Additional useful guidelines and techniques

CucumberObject Oriented ProgrammingOOPTDDTest Driven DevelopmentGherkinBDDBehaviour driven development