Cucumber Recipes

Recipe 19

Test a Grails App Using grails-cucumber

Problem

You’re writing a web app using the Grails framework, and you want to use Cucumber to test it.

Ingredients

• Grails,^[119] a web framework written in the Groovy language for the JVM

• grails-cucumber,^[120] a testing plug-in that adds Cucumber support to Grails

• Cucumber-JVM,^[121] the pure-Java implementation of Cucumber that makes grails-cucumber possible

Solution

Groovy is a programming language that aims to bring some of Ruby’s expressiveness to the Java runtime. The syntax is quite flexible; you can often paste Java code directly into a .groovy file and then gradually add Groovy features as you go along.

Grails is a Rails-like web framework written in Groovy. In this recipe, we’re going to build ...