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Successful Test Automation with
Selenium and Cucumber
Software Testing Insights

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Successful Test Automation with Selenium and Cucumber
Selenium & Cucumber are a great combination when it comes
to web application automation. Are you trying it yet?

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Successful Test Automation with Selenium and Cucumber
In this post you will learn:
• The Basics of Selenium with Cucumber
• An Overview of Selenium Web Driver API Process
• 3 steps for writing automated tests that deliver high value while
requiring only low maintenance using Cucumber:
Define scenarios
Create step definitions
Define UI Element descriptions

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Successful Test Automation with Selenium and Cucumber
• The Basics:
• Web application regression testing is done to assess the app compatibility across a range of
browsers, but this method tends to be a burden on both time and money.
• A better method would be the use of multiple test suites to be driven across a number of
browsers.
• Cucumber allows you to write your tests quickly in English-like language
• Selenium allows you to run on various combinations of browsers
• So how do you use them together?
• An Overview of the Process:
• Cucumber essentially acts as a common ground between developers and non-technical
stakeholders.
• The Selenium Web Driver API can be called in these step definitions to drive the browsers
• Cucumber does not communicate directly with the applications, it needs to be used in
conjunction with tools such as Selenium Web Driver

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We’ve described the working relationship between Selenium and Cucumber here, but
there are ofcourse a number of BDD tools that can be used together.
Which one should you choose?
Successful Test Automation with Selenium and Cucumber