Introduction To BDD & Cucumber Framework

Introduction To BDD & Cucumber Framework

What is BDD?

• It is also known as Behavior Driven Development
• It is an Agile Software Development Process
• It encourages team collaboration
• It is Inherited from TDD principles
• It uses simple domain specific languages similar to English
• Some of the popular BDD tools are Cucumber, Jbehave, Specflow, Jasmine

What is Cucumber Framework?

• It is a popular BDD Framework
• It uses Gherkin language to write business specifications
• It contains Features, Step Definitions and Test Runner
• It supports languages like Java, JavaScript
• It can be easily integrated with Automation tools like Selenium
• It can be integrated with popular test frameworks like TestNG or Junit
• It has inbuilt Reporting Capabilities

Different Components in Cucumber Framework: