Tagging Basics Cucumber provides a simple method to organize features and scenarios by user determined classifications. This is implemented using the convention that any space delimited string found in a feature file that is prefaced with the commercial at (@) symbol is considered a tag. Any string may be used as a tag and any […]
Introduction The more I have gotten into developing testing frameworks based on Cucumber, the more I’ve seen how important writing effective cucumber tests are. The feature files provided earlier are not a good example of cucumber tests, and below we will cover why, and how to turn these into effectively written test cases. A badly […]
Errors on report.js I recently ran into an issue when compiling my html friendly cucumber reports. For larger tests run, when attempting to view the reports generated in the cucumber-html-report, the screen appeared blank. After some debugging, I noticed that the reports.js file generated was abruptly terminated. The true cause of the issue is still […]
Introduction Now that we have created some simple cucumber tests and built a sturdy selenium framework, we want to setup an environment where these tests can be quickly and conveniently run against our code. Due to the nature of development, code is constantly changing, and we want to ensure that each change to the code […]
Introduction Initially this post was going to contain instructions on running tests locally, and on SecureCI. Due to the lengthiness of the post, I decided to break this up into two different posts. This post will cover just setting up and running tests locally, building on the previous posts of creating some simple cucumber tests […]
Introduction In the last blog post, we started down the road of BDD, utilizing the Cucumber-jvm, and using Webdriver to perform some acceptance tests on our web based application. This post will continue where the last one left off, and move us further along, by examining some of the issues with our testing code base, […]
