The Cucumber Book (For Juan Martinez) by Wynne, Matt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Cucumber Book Table of Contents What Readers Are Saying About The Cucumber Book Foreword Acknowledgments Preface

Who This Book Is For Why You Should Listen to Us How This Book Is Organized What Is Not in This Book Running the Code Examples Getting Help

Part 1: Cucumber Fundamentals Chapter 1: Why Cucumber?

1.1 Automated Acceptance Tests 1.2 Behaviour-Driven Development 1.3 Living Documentation 1.4 How Cucumber Works 1.5 What We Just Learned

Chapter 2: First Taste

2.1 Understanding Our Goal 2.2 Creating a Feature 2.3 Creating Step Definitions 2.4 Implementing Our First Step Definition 2.5 Running Our Program 2.6 Changing Formatters 2.7 Adding an Assertion 2.8 Making It Pass 2.9 What We Just Learned

Chapter 3: Gherkin Basics

3.1 What’s Gherkin For? 3.2 Format and Syntax 3.3 Feature 3.4 Scenario 3.5 Comments 3.6 Spoken languages 3.7 What We Just Learned

Chapter 4: Step Definitions: From the Outside

4.1 Steps and Step Definitions 4.2 Capturing Arguments 4.3 Multiple Captures 4.4 Flexibility 4.5 Returning Results 4.6 What We Just Learned

Chapter 5: Expressive Scenarios

5.1 Background 5.2 Data Tables 5.3 Scenario Outline 5.4 Nesting Steps 5.5 Doc Strings 5.6 Staying Organized with Tags and Subfolders 5.7 What We Just Learned

Chapter 6: When Cucumbers Go Bad

6.1 Feeling the Pain 6.2 Working Together 6.3 Caring for Your Tests 6.4 Stop the Line and Defect Prevention 6.5 What We Just Learned

Part 2: A Worked Example Chapter 7: Step Definitions: On the Inside

7.1 Sketching Out the Domain Model 7.2 Removing Duplication with Transforms 7.3 Adding Custom Helper Methods to the World 7.4 Organizing the Code 7.5 What We Just Learned

Chapter 8: Support Code

8.1 Fixing the Bug 8.2 Bootstrapping the User Interface 8.3 Making the Switch 8.4 Using Hooks 8.5 Building the User Interface 8.6 What We Just Learned

Chapter 9: Dealing with Message Queues and Asynchronous Components

9.1 Our New Asynchronous Architecture 9.2 How to Synchronize 9.3 Implementing the New Architecture 9.4 Fixing the Flickering Scenario 9.5 What We Just Learned

Chapter 10: Databases

10.1 Introducing ActiveRecord 10.2 Refactoring to Use a Database 10.3 Reading and Writing to the Database 10.4 Cleaning the Database with Transactions 10.5 Cleaning the Database with Truncation 10.6 What We Just Learned

Part 3: Cucumber Applied Chapter 11: The Cucumber Command-Line Interface

11.1 Cucumber’s Command-Line Options 11.2 Running a Subset of Scenarios 11.3 Changing Cucumber’s Output 11.4 Specifying the Location of Step Definitions 11.5 Managing Your Work in Progress (WIP) 11.6 Using Profiles 11.7 Running Cucumber from Rake 11.8 Running Cucumber in Continuous Integration 11.9 What We Just Learned

Chapter 12: Testing a REST Web Service

12.1 In-Process Testing of Rack-Based REST APIs 12.2 Out-of-Process Testing of Any REST API 12.3 What We Just Learned

Chapter 13: Adding Tests to a Legacy Application

13.1 Characterization Tests 13.2 Squashing Bugs 13.3 Adding New Behavior 13.4 Code Coverage 13.5 What We Just Learned

Chapter 14: Bootstrapping Rails

14.1 Running the Generators 14.2 Creating a User 14.3 Posting a Message 14.4 Associating a Message with a User 14.5 Creating a Controller by Hand 14.6 Implementing the View 14.7 What We Just Learned 14.8 Try this

Chapter 15: Using Capybara to Test Ajax Web Applications

15.1 Implementing a Simple Search Without Ajax 15.2 Searching with Ajax 15.3 The Capybara API 15.4 Taking Screenshots 15.5 What We Just Learned

Chapter 16: Testing Command-Line Applications with Aruba

16.1 Simple Interfaces 16.2 Our First Aruba Feature 16.3 Working with Files and Executables 16.4 Interacting with User Input 16.5 Using Aruba’s Ruby DSL 16.6 What We Just Learned

Appendix 1: Using Cucumber with Other Platforms Appendix 2: Installing Cucumber

A2.1 Installing Ruby A2.2 HTTP Proxy Settings A2.3 Installing Bundler A2.4 Installing Cucumber (and RSpec) A2.5 Installing Other Gems A2.6 Choosing a Text Editor

Appendix 3: Ruby Gem Versions Appendix 4: Bibliography