The Cucumber for Java Book : Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers

Teams working on the JVM can now say goodbye forever to misunderstood requirements, tedious manual acceptance tests, and out-of-date documentation. Cucumber - the popular, open-source tool that helps teams communicate more effectively with their customers - now has a Java version, and our bestselling __Cucumber Book__ has been updated to match. __The Cucumber for Java Book__ has the same great advice about how to deliver rock-solid applications collaboratively, but with all code completely rewritten in Java. New chapters cover features unique to the Java version of Cucumber, and reflect insights from the Cucumber team since the original book was published. Until now it's been difficult for teams developing Java applications to learn how to benefit from Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). This book changes all that by describing in detail how to use Cucumber to harness the power of plain language specifications in your development process. In part 1, you'll discover how to use Cucumber's Gherkin DSL to describe the behavior your customers want from the system. You'll also learn how to write Java code that interprets those plain language specifications and checks them against your application. Part 2 guides you through a worked example, using Spring, MySQL, and Jetty. Enhanced chapters teach you how to use Selenium to drive your application and handle asynchronous Ajax calls, and new chapters cover Dependency Injection (DI) and advanced techniques to help keep your test suites fast. Part 3 shows you how to integrate Cucumber with your Continuous Integration (CI) system, work with a REST web service, and even use BDD with legacy applications. Written by the creator of Cucumber and two of its most experienced users and contributors, __The Cucumber for Java Book__ is an authoritative guide that will give you and your team all the knowledge you need to start using Cucumber with confidence. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Preface......Page 16 Who This Book Is For......Page 17 How This Book Is Organized......Page 18 Running the Code Examples......Page 19 Online Resources......Page 20 Part I?Cucumber Fundamentals......Page 21 1. Why Cucumber?......Page 22 Behaviour-Driven Development......Page 23 Living Documentation......Page 25 How Cucumber Works......Page 26 What We Just Learned......Page 27 Understanding Our Goal......Page 29 Creating a Feature......Page 30 Creating Step Definitions......Page 35 Implementing Our First Step Definition......Page 37 Changing Cucumber's Output......Page 38 Testing Our Checkout Class......Page 39 Adding an Assertion......Page 41 Making It Pass......Page 43 What We Just Learned......Page 46 What's Gherkin For?......Page 48 Format and Syntax......Page 51 Feature......Page 52 Scenario......Page 53 Comments......Page 57 Spoken Languages......Page 58 What We Just Learned......Page 59 4. Step Definitions: From the Outside......Page 61 Steps and Step Definitions......Page 62 Capturing Arguments......Page 67 Multiple Captures......Page 71 Flexibility......Page 72 Returning Results......Page 74 What We Just Learned......Page 82 Background......Page 84 Data Tables......Page 87 Scenario Outline......Page 94 Too Much Information......Page 99 Doc Strings......Page 101 Staying Organized with Tags and Subfolders......Page 102 What We Just Learned......Page 105 6. Keeping Your Cucumbers Sweet......Page 106 Feeling the Pain......Page 107 Working Together......Page 110 Caring for Your Tests......Page 117 Stop the Line and Defect Prevention......Page 125 What We Just Learned......Page 127 Part II?A Worked Example......Page 129 7. Step Definitions: On the Inside......Page 130 Sketching Out the Domain Model......Page 131 Staying Honest with Transforms......Page 136 Adding Custom Helper Methods......Page 140 Organizing the Code......Page 147 Dependency Injection......Page 150 What We Just Learned......Page 151 8. Support Code......Page 153 Fixing the Bug......Page 154 Bootstrapping the User Interface......Page 161 Making the Switch......Page 163 Using Hooks......Page 168 Getting to Green......Page 172 What We Just Learned......Page 178 Our New Asynchronous Architecture......Page 180 How to Synchronize......Page 181 Implementing the New Architecture......Page 183 Fixing the Flickering Scenario......Page 190 What We Just Learned......Page 195 Iterative Database Development......Page 196 Refactoring to Use a Database......Page 199 Reading and Writing to the Database......Page 205 Cleaning the Database with Transactions......Page 210 Cleaning the Database with Truncation......Page 213 What We Just Learned......Page 215 DI and Cucumber......Page 216 Improving Our Design Using DI......Page 218 PicoContainer Is Almost Invisible......Page 224 Moving to Guice......Page 225 Spring in Your Steps......Page 229 CDI with Weld......Page 232 What We Just Learned......Page 234 Selenium WebDriver......Page 235 Handling Failure......Page 238 Reusing the Browser......Page 243 Ajax......Page 245 What We Just Learned......Page 252 Partitioning Features and Scenarios......Page 254 What Sort of Tests?......Page 257 Environment-Specific Step Definitions......Page 259 Changing Step Definitions Using Tags......Page 262 What We Just Learned......Page 265 Part III?More Techniques......Page 266 Cucumber's Runtime Options......Page 267 Overriding Cucumber Options......Page 273 Automating Cucumber......Page 274 What We Just Learned......Page 280 15. Working with a REST Web Service......Page 281 Structure Your Step Definitions......Page 282 Storing Some Fruit......Page 283 Building a Skeleton Web Server......Page 284 The Fruits of Our Labor......Page 288 What We Just Learned......Page 291 16. Working with Legacy Applications......Page 293 Characterization Tests......Page 294 Squashing Bugs......Page 296 Adding New Behavior......Page 297 Are Your Scenarios Sufficient?......Page 299 What We Just Learned......Page 300 Choosing Your JARs......Page 301 External Dependencies......Page 303 Console Colors on Windows......Page 304 A2. Cucumber and Other JVM Languages......Page 305 Groovy......Page 306 Scala......Page 310 Clojure......Page 311 A3. Bibliography......Page 314 ? B ?......Page 316 ? D ?......Page 317 ? J ?......Page 318 ? R ?......Page 319 ? T ?......Page 320 ? X ?......Page 321

Teams working on the JVM can now say goodbye forever to misunderstood requirements, tedious manual acceptance tests, and out-of-date documentation. Cucumber—the popular, open-source tool that helps teams communicate more effectively with their customers—now has a Java version, and our bestselling _Cucumber Book_ has been updated to match. _The Cucumber for Java Book_ has the same great advice about how to deliver rock-solid applications collaboratively, but with all code completely rewritten in Java. New chapters cover features unique to the Java version of Cucumber, and reflect insights from the Cucumber team since the original book was published.