Mobile Test Automation with Appium

How does Cucumber work?

Cucumber is a command-line tool that basically executes the feature file which contains business scenarios facing the application. Feature files follow a specific syntax that is called Gherkin. Gherkin is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that allows us to describe a business scenario. It's a line-oriented language that uses spaces or tabs to define structure apart from the keyword.

There are two basic conventions with Gherkin:

• A file can contain the description of a single feature
• Files have the .feature extension

The stages of writing a scenario will be as follows:

1. Create a feature file.
2. Describe a scenario.
3. Write the steps to accomplish that scenario.

All these steps of writing a scenario are business facing, ...