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The Cucumber for Java Book
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The Cucumber for Java Book

by Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Scenario

To actually express the behavior we want, each feature contains several scenarios. Each scenario is a single concrete example of how the system should behave in a particular situation. If you add together the behavior defined by all of the scenarios, that’s the expected behavior of the feature itself.

When Cucumber runs a scenario, if the system behaves as described in the scenario, then the scenario will pass; if not, it will fail. Each time you add a new scenario to your Cucumber test suite and make it pass, you’ve added some new functionality to the system, and that’s time for a high-five.

Each feature typically has somewhere between five and twenty scenarios, each describing different examples of how that feature should behave ...

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