Tag Archives: cucumber

Testing visual appearance with Cucumber + Watir

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Sampo J.

One of the great things about Cucumber and Watir is that it allows you to write functional tests that are decoupled of the UI.  By using page objects, the definition of how the UI works is decoupled from the tests … Continue reading →

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Documenting Cucumber steps

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Sampo J.

One of the great things in Cucumber testing is that as you go along, you start to accumulate ready step definitions, which makes writing new tests even faster.  Several times I’ve actually been surprised that a definition for a step … Continue reading →

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Dump World on failure

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Sampo J.

One of the most important aspects of test reports is that when something fails, you can easily debug what went wrong.  Splitting tests into logical, small tests that exercise a single functionality in the system goes a long way toward … Continue reading →

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API testing with Cucumber

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Sampo J.

In our project we have a REST API using JSON that is used both internally by our mobile clients and offered externally to third parties.  Since we were consolidating all functional testing to Cucumber, it was natural to experiment what … Continue reading →

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