Deep Dive Cucumber from Skillsoft

Online, Self-Paced

This course focuses on managing scenarios and behaviors. You will work with various scenarios including databases and web services, REST API and troubleshooting test processes.

Learning Objectives

Managing Scenarios and Features

start the course
group Cucumber features in subfolders and run a feature from a subfolder
demonstrate how to filter Cucumber scenarios to run a subset using tags or lines
use hooks in Cucumber scenarios
demonstrate how to modify the default output from Cucumber using formatters such as progress, rerun, usage and stepdef, formatting to file, and use backtrace option
demonstrate how to store Cucumber command line options in a YAML file and use the profile option to run them

Messaging and Asynchronous Behavior

recognize handling of asynchronous systems in Cucumber scenarios

Databases and Web Services

recognize concepts including introducing ActiveRecord, refactor a Cucumber scenario to use data, and read and write data to a database
use transactions and truncation to clean databases for Cucumber scenarios
test REST APIs with Cucumber

Troubleshooting Scenarios

identify issues in Cucumber scenarios such as flickering scenarios; brittle and slow features; and unengaged stakeholders, identify underlying causes, and provide solutions

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