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. Cucumber allows the execution of feature documentation written in business-facing text.
Example
A feature definition, with a single scenario:
Feature: Division
In order to avoid silly mistakes
Cashiers must be able to calculate a fraction
Scenario: Regular numbers
* I have entered 3 into the calculator
* I press divide
* I have entered 2 into the calculator
Result: Should be 1.5 on the screen
The execution of the test implicit in the feature definition above requires the definition, using the Ruby language, of a few "steps":
encoding: utf-8
begin require 'rspec/expectations'; rescue LoadError; require 'spec/expectations'; end
require 'cucumber/formatter/unicode'
$:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../lib')
require 'calculator'
Before do
@calc = Calculator.new
end
After do
end
Given /I have entered (\d+) into the calculator/ do |n|
@calc.push n.to_i
end
When /I press (\w+)/ do |op|
@result = @calc.send op
end
Then /the result should be (.*) on the screen/ do |result|
@result.should
result.to_f
end
Popularity
Cucumber has been downloaded over 829,873 times. According to a Mashable
Mashable
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survey, it is the 5th most popular testing framework in use by startup
Startup company
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Gojko Adzic is an agile testing and development proponent, author of several books, coach and mentor.His book, "Specification by Example", presented the idea of moving to 'living documentation' and 'active specification'...
and David de Florinier
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