Chapter 2. The specification layer and the automation layer
This chapter covers
- Understanding an executable specification’s layers
- Understanding the structure of those layers
- Writing your first Given-When-Then scenarios
- Exploring how the specification layer interacts with testing code
If you haven’t worked with Gherkin and specification by example (SBE) before, chapter 1 may have shown you your first Gherkin scenario (listing 1.1). We haven’t yet written a full Gherkin specification document together, though, and we’ll need more practical examples to do that.
Chapter 1 also talked about how conversations captured in Gherkin become automated tests and how automation keeps executable specifications up to date. But we didn’t discuss any details. ...
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