The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers

If your a developer, support software, must read!

Really good book if you are starting with cucumber and calabash. It has many examples and the code is well explained. It helped me alot, and now I feel confident to write tests

The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers by Matt Wynne is an in-depth introduction to Cucumber and was of great interest to my husband, who has worked in the industry for years. The following are his thoughts after reading this book.The authors dive right in to practical matters and, after stating most of their assumptions about the skill level of the reader, begin exploring the Cucumber objects such as features, scenarios with the Gherkin DSL and building step definitions to create executable specifications for software development and testing.The book is for developers, as the title states, and can work best for those that already know quite a bit about many coding tools and practices including testing, TDD (test driven development), and DSLs (domain specific language), using REGEX. It is helpful to have been exposed to some of the AGILE principles that currently engage business teams directly in software product development.Taken overall I enjoyed the sequence of the practical work approach. This book can provide the deep dive in to some areas of learning Cucumber that will provide solid skills when all is completed. Many developers I know would prefer to have the tools and start fooling around, and I think the book may be a bit pedantic to start. Some early use of a tool could provide a stimulating introduction. It would be great if the book had a website with download package to provide the simple install for an intro toolset.I have grown through many testing frameworks, fads and tools. That background helps me fill in a lot of missing anecdotal history for testing not exposed here or to many new developers.I suggest starting with a trial and just get any editor like VScode and the Cucumber plugins, or RubyMine IDE. Just test drive the BDD and see how cool it is seeing interactive runs and getting a feel for how fast it can be to develop this way. That can provide a solid motivation to continue learning. I certainly would recommend this book for a serious study of how to use the Cucumber workflow, and since many new tools are emerging for the BDD workflow, any curious coder can go on to looking at Protractor and Typescript. Have some fun!

The increasing complexity of software, which has made program development much more difficult and expensive to initiate, test and de-bug, has put a premium on a software development environment that at least mitigates those difficulties. Cucumber is a testing, communication, and requirements tool that is unified into a single package. It is a behavioral based development testing environment: essentially a cleverly designed and subtlety implemented behavior modification tool that helps encourage software development customers to express their most creative ideas, which are then translated by developers into a set of clear, executable specifications that the entire software team can read and understand.These specs are fed into Cucumber and become a template of sorts that serves to logically guide program development. The result is a carefully constructed coding environment that creates the shortest path between customer desires and properly constructed programs that express their wishes. Cucumber is designed to enable software developers to build just the right code to keep their customers happy. It can be used to test almost any system or any platform.The Cucumber Book is clearly written and boasts an extensive overview of Cucumber's features and methods. Its in-depth discussions of proper software development and testing techniques are also very helpful for anyone interested in learning the best way to develop and test code by reducing the probability of introducing difficult to spot errors that can raise havoc with a project. Anyone who has ever attempted to de-bug a program that's been hobbled by a hard-to-find error in program logic or coding syntax knows how excruciating that process can be. Cucumber was designed to help prevent the introduction of programming errors during the initiation phase and beyond. This is an enjoyable overview of this programming resource.

Any programming book that contains the line:Great! Now our test is failing for exactly the right reasonhas to be a great book!Written with a sense of fun, yet conveying the technical information exceptionally well. If you need to learn about dev testing - especially behavior driven dev testing, this is a great place to start. Matt Wynn, Aslak Hellsoy and Steve Tooke have written a book that most in my industry (app development) should read.Aimed at Cucumber 2.4, Rails 5 and RSpec 3.5, I would suggest that if you are programming web or device apps, even if these are not the tools/languages you use, you need to read this book. You may change your path slightly and work with these.We all need some cucumber in our lives

This book discusses Cucumber, a system for designing software, which fosters communication between all members of a project team, including management and clients. The book itself is well written; I found the books content quite accessible. I learned not just about Cucumber but also about some aspects of program design in general. Indeed, Cucumber, being a comprehensive software design tool, covers many aspects of program design including the importance of creating a domain model, etc. if you are learning Cucumber, I recommend purchasing this book.

This is a really comprehensive guide. You'll know cucumber inside out as well as best practices for usage, good and bad types of tests, why use cucumber over unit tests in what situations. Really clear and well thought out.But - be aware that all the examples are in Ruby. That's not a huge problem if you use another language but you may as well buy the cucumber for java book if you're using java as it has virtually the same contents.Only getting 4 stars because the title should have been "Cucumber for Ruby" so it's clear which book you should buy.

Exactly what i wanted. Explains everything clearly.

The content is certainly not applicable to other platforms. Everything is geared towards ruby and all the gems of it. Some very basic concepts can be used in other languages but again if you are developer and looking into automated testing and BDD, the chances are you are already familiar with these basics.

El contenido és muy claro y entendible. La estructura del libro te ayuda a aprender paso a paso lo que necesitas.