1. Cucumber Recipes
Sonik Chopra
PMI ACP, PMP
Agile Coach, Manager
Pitney Bowes Software

2. Agenda
• Introduction to BDD
• BDD Vs TDD
• Cucumber Features
• Demo: The real power of Cucumber
• Integration with different languages and
platforms

3. Behaviour Driven Development
Implementing an application by describing its
behaviour by the perspective of its
stakeholders..
Dan North

4. But don’t we already do this??

5. What we really do….
As a Retail Customer, I want to withdraw money
from my Account so that I can get Money.
Unit Tests
Should_Not_Dispense_When_the_ClientAccount_has_money_le
ssthan_minimum_amount()
Should_withdraw_Money_When_appropriate_Sum_Found()
Should_Not_Withdaw_Post_Expiry_Date()
Should_Withdraw_Post_Expiry_Date()
Should_Be_A_Valid_User()
Should_Not_Withdraw_When_Negative_Balance()
Should_Be_A_Valid_Account_Type()
Should_Return_Error_When_ATM_Is_Without_Cash()

6. Restricted view on Behaviour

7. Difference in thinking
CLIENT
CUSTOMER
BUYER
SHOPPER
PUNTER
DEV QA BA CLIENT PO

8. Increased Ambiguity  LOST

9. BDD – Outside In
VISION
GOAL
FEATURE
STORY
SCENARIO
CODE

10. Scenarios and Examples in Ubiquitous Language
HAVING CONVERSATION IS
MORE IMPORTANT
TALKING THROUGH
EXAMPLES HELP DISCOVER
CONSIDERS MULTIPLE
STAKEHOLDERS

11. BDD Vs TDD
• Development Methodology Vs Development
Technique
• Business Driven Vs Design Approach
• Customer Writing Tests Vs Developers writing
Tests
• Focus on Behavioural Aspect Vs
Implementation Aspect

12. Cucumber Example…
Story:
As a user
I want to login with my details
So that I can get access to the site
Scenario: User uses wrong password
Given a username 'jdoe'
And a password 'letmein'
When the user logs in with username and password
Then the login form should be shown again
GHERKIN
LANGUAGE
Gherkin Supports
40+ Languages.

13. Cucumber at a glance…
Written in plain
English Language using
Gherkin
Source Code in Ruby
Or Java Or Dot Net etc

14. DEMO of Cucumber Capabilities

15. Cucumber
for Dot Net
SpecFlow
Iron Ruby
Cuke4Nuke
Cucumber
for Java
Cuke4Duke
Webdriver
tools
Watir
Selenium
Competitive
products
FIT/FITNESS
Robot
Framework
Concordian
EasyB
JBehave
Integration with other platforms

16. • TestBot Or Hydra : Tools used to run
Cucumber tests in parallel. You can also use
Jenkins and create slave machines.
• Relish: A service to publish cucumber features
as documentation
• FactoryGirl GEM: Test Data Builder
• Easy to Integrate with CI environment.
Cucumber Add Ons

17. Thank You
Sonik Chopra
PMI ACP, PMP
Agile Coach, Manager
Pitney Bowes Software
sonikchopra@gmail.com
http://in.linkedin.com/in/sonikchopra
Twitter: @sonikchopra