Maven with Cucumber

  What is BDD

ü  Behaviour-driven development focus on the what test on the application.

ü  BDD uses plain English text to explain the exact requirements

ü  BDD uses the language called Gherkins

ü  In the market the BDD can implement by

·         Cucumber (Java),

·         Jbehave (Java),

·         SpecFlow (dot net environment) etc.,

What is Cucumber

ü  Cucumber is a behavior driven development (BDD) approach to automation test scripts to test Desktop, Web and Android Apps.

ü  It often develops and execute acceptance, Functional, Regression and unit tests.

ü  Cucumber makes to understand the eclipse the Gherkin syntax and works like a syntax highlighter.

ü  It highlights main syntax in feature file and it is more readable.

ü  We can run the feature file independently

ü  The official URL is  https://docs.cucumber.io/   -> (cucumber.io/docs/reference)

ü  Required list of.jar files for cucumber 

·         Cobertura-2.1.1

·         Cucumber-core-1.1.2

·         Cucumber-java-1.1.2

·         Cucumber –junit-1.1.2

·         Cucumber–jvm-deps-1.0.3

·         Cucumber-reporting-0.1.0

·         Gherkin2.12.1

·         Junit-4.11

·         Mockito-all-2.0.2

The Complete jar files with pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>MavenwithCucumberProject</groupId>

  <artifactId>MavenwithCucumberProject</artifactId>

  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>MavenwithCucumberProject</name>

  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>

    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

  </properties>

  <dependencies>

  

  

  <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-core -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

    <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>

    <version>1.2.5</version>

</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-java -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

    <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>

    <version>1.2.5</version>

</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-junit -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

    <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>

    <version>1.2.5</version>

    <scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/gherkin -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

    <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>

    <version>2.12.2</version>

    <scope>provided</scope>

</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-html -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

    <artifactId>cucumber-html</artifactId>

    <version>0.2.3</version>

</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-jvm-deps -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

    <artifactId>cucumber-jvm-deps</artifactId>

    <version>1.0.5</version>

    <scope>provided</scope>

</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.serenity-bdd/serenity-cucumber -->

<dependency>

<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>

<artifactId>serenity-cucumber</artifactId>

<version>1.9.12</version>

</dependency>

  

    <dependency>

      <groupId>junit</groupId>

      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

      <version>3.8.1</version>

      <scope>test</scope>

    </dependency>

  </dependencies>

</project>

Gherkin

Few keywords, which are used to define in the feature file about the requirement i.e.,

·         Given

·         When

·         Then
And etc.