Testers are leveraging a methodology termed as BDD or Behavior Driven Development and the Cucumber framework is a flagship tool for the same. With the back-end code in Ruby, Cucumber has become one of the most widely used frameworks leveraged for testing by professionals. If you are operating in an environment where collaboration is required from senior stakeholders, then Cucumber framework is the way to go.
Owing to its quick installation and easy set-up, it is quite simple to involve business stakeholders who find it difficult to understand the code. Learning the framework in this fast-paced business world where expectations change quite rapidly is highly useful. The flexibility of the Cucumber framework can be seen as it supports many other languages other than Ruby, like Java, Scala and Groovy. With more and more organizations moving towards an agile framework, the ability to wield Cucumber because of its collaborative nature is in high demand these days.
Benefits:
With most organizations adopting agile methodologies in their workflows, the Cucumber tool helps in bringing business leaders to the table due to the framework’s collaborative nature. This offers multiple benefits to the organizations as well as individuals.
Individual Benefits:
- Get more flexibility into your career as it supports multiple languages like Java.net and Ruby, thereby making you an attractive hire
- According to Pay Scale a professional who can work on the Cucumber framework earns an average of $60k
- Explain your work to leadership quite easily and improve chances of career advancements
Organizational Benefits:
- Cucumber acts as a bridge between leadership and developers as cases can be created in plain English, thereby improving communication across the organization
- It provides the non-programmers with an opportunity to get their hands dirty as well. Test scripts can be written without any prior coding knowledge.
- Simplistic test script architecture allows the code to be re-used, thereby saving time and money
- Courses for the Cucumber framework are in great demand as organizations are increasingly moving to agile workflows and they need everyone, including the leadership, to be on the same page as the developers and testers.
What you will learn
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Introduction
Get introduced to Cucumber and Behavior Driven Development. -
Installation & Configuration
Get started with installing and configuring various tools and frameworks. -
Feature Files
Create a Cucumber Selenium Java Test, the Cucumber Feature Files, Gherkin and Cucumber Options -
Step Definitions
Learn to write very effective and efficient Step Definitions. -
Integration with JUnit
Learn to integrate Cucumber with JUnit and then start understanding the different configurations of annotations -
Integration with Maven
Learn to integrate Cucumber with Maven and running it from the Terminal -
Tagging & Hooking
Learn the basic concepts of Tags and Hooks and about the power of Tag and Hook combinations. -
Building Frameworks
Learn how to build frameworks to automate Web, REST, and Mobile applications.
Who should attend
- Manual Tester Engineers
- Automation Tester Engineers
- Test Managers
- Beginners who want to make a career in the BDD test field
- Anyone who wants to add Cucumber Skills
- Teams working on Cucumber project
After completing our course, you will be able to:
- Understand all the parameters of automating testing with Cucumber
- Understand the major concepts of Cucumber frameworks
- You will become an expert in automated testing with Cucumber
- You will be proficient in working on Cucumber Frameworks
We provide the course in English.
