Both Selenium and Cucumber are popular open source test automation frameworks. In this article, Jessica Cyrus explains how to integrate Cucumber and Selenium WebDriver which allows defining automated tests in a language that could be easier to understand outside the software testing team. Author: Jessica Cyrus, Nex, https://www.nexsoftsys.com/ Overview Cucumber is an open source testing tool that supports Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and it is being widely used because it provides us a benefit to write the test cases in a simple English-based language called Gherkin. Many organizations want to integrate Cucumber with Selenium for the ease of non-technical employees. Since Cucumber helps in writing test cases and scenarios in simple English text, it becomes easy for employees like Business Analyst, Project Manager, and Manual Testers and for other non-technical persons to understand a software testing company ’s workflow. It is also beneficial when there is a need for a client to understand the application under test. Cucumber is known as Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework because it can help anyone, even the non-technical persons to grasp the functional behavior of deep tech products. Integrating Cucumber with Selenium Cucumber is basically divided in three main files: Feature File: This file provides high-level information in form of test objective, test scenarios, test tags, test cases, test data etc. Below are few components that elaborates how feature file is developed: Feature- Defines what all features to be tested along with their objective. Scenario- Defines test steps and expected outcome for that particular test [...]
