How to Remove Duplication in Cucumber Tests Using Scenario Outlines
Gojko Adzic has a new blog post demonstrating the new table parameter support in Cuke4Nuke. Table parameters are an important part of Cucumber. They’re great for setting up data and asserting that...
View ArticleDebugging Cuke4Nuke Step Definitions
At a client today, we were doing some tricky automation with WatiN (against Telerik controls) in Cuke4Nuke. We wanted to dig into what WatiN was finding in the browser. The obvious move was to fire up...
View ArticleJust Enough Regular Expressions for Cucumber
Jon Archer wrote last week about how Cucumber makes knowledge of regular expressions important. He’s right: Regular expressions are the key to Cucumber’s flexibility. Well-crafted regular expressions...
View ArticlePublic ATDD with Cucumber Course, March 7-8, Denver (Postponed)
Update: This course has been postponed until June or July. If you’re interested in attending, let me know and I’ll notify you when registration opens so you can take advantage of the early bird...
View ArticleCuke4Nuke Needs Your Help
Almost 2 years ago, at the 2009 AA-FTT conference, I started Cuke4Nuke to bring Cucumber to the .NET world. Since then, thanks to some fantastic help from Aslak Hellesøy, Matt Wynne, Declan Whelan,...
View ArticleGetting Started with Ruby, Cucumber, and Capybara on Windows
The Ruby version of Cucumber isn’t just for Rails developers. If you have a .NET or Java web or service app, Ruby can be a great language for testing. With libraries like Capybara for driving web apps...
View ArticleCucumber Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
Regular expressions are a big part of what makes Cucumber tests both expressive in English and DRY on the automation side. To make the most of that power, you have to know something about regular...
View ArticleThe Future of Cucumber on .NET
Beginning just over two years ago, I worked with some great developers to create Cuke4Nuke as a way to bring Cucumber to .NET. Shortly after the first releases of Cuke4Nuke, TechTalk released SpecFlow,...
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Cucumber Tip: Key-Value Tables
You may not realize this: Tables in Cucumber steps don’t have to have a header row. Sometimes it can work really well to use a headerless table of key-value pairs. Let’s look at an example. Suppose we...
View ArticleCucumber Tip: IRB From Inside a Step Definition
Most Ruby programmers know about Ruby’s interactive console, IRB. (If you don’t, stop right here, open up a command window and run irb. Type some Ruby code. See how it returns the result of each line...
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A Common, but Bad, Idea
Please don’t do this: It will hurt. Not right away, but around sprint 4 when the bugs found in sprint 3 for the stories built in sprint 2 need to be mixed in with the stories planned in sprint 3 for...
View ArticleWeb Testing for .NET Teams: WatiN or Watir?
I’ve noticed a pattern with several of my .NET clients who want to get into automated acceptance testing for web applications. They like the idea of WatiN because it would let them write tests in the...
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Cuke4Nuke: Cucumber for .NET Teams
Update: If you’ve just landed here, you could get the impression from this post that Cuke4Nuke doesn’t exist yet. It does. Check out this screencast showing what you can do with it as of early December...
View ArticleScreencast: Testing Web Applications in .NET with Cuke4Nuke and WatiN
Yesterday, I released Cuke4Nuke 0.2.2, which added WatiN compatibility and an example of how to use the two tools together. Here’s a short screencast in which I walk through the example: Resources from...
View ArticleThe Latest on Cuke4Nuke
This morning, I released version 0.3.0 of Cuke4Nuke. With this release, Cuke4Nuke supports almost everything you can do with Cucumber in Ruby or Java, making C# a first class language for Cucumber....
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