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Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5
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Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5

by Boni Garcia
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cucumber in a nutshell

Cucumber executes tests specified written in language called Gherkin. It is a plaint-text natural language (for example, English or one of other 60+ languages supported by Cucumber) with a given structure. Gherkin has been designed to be used by non-programmers, typically customers, business analysis, managers, and so on.

The extension for Gherkin files is .feature.

In a Gherkin file, non-blank lines can start with a keyword, followed by text in natural language. The main keywords are the following:

  • Feature: High-level description of the software feature to be tested. It can be seen as a use case description.
  • Scenario: Concrete example that illustrates a business rule. Scenarios follow the same pattern:
    • Describe initial ...
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