Cucumber Tip: IRB From Inside a Step Definition
Most Ruby programmers know about Ruby’s interactive console, IRB. (If you don’t, stop right here, open up a command window and run irb. Type some…
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Cucumber Tip: Key-Value Tables
You may not realize this: Tables in Cucumber steps don’t have to have a header row. Sometimes it can work really well to use a…
The Future of Cucumber on .NET
Beginning just over two years ago, I worked with some great developers to create Cuke4Nuke as a way to bring Cucumber to .NET. Shortly after…
Cucumber Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
Regular expressions are a big part of what makes Cucumber tests both expressive in English and DRY on the automation side. To make the most…
Getting Started with Ruby, Cucumber, and Capybara on Windows
The Ruby version of Cucumber isn’t just for Rails developers. If you have a .NET or Java web or service app, Ruby can be a…
Cuke4Nuke Needs Your Help
Almost 2 years ago, at the 2009 AA-FTT conference, I started Cuke4Nuke to bring Cucumber to the .NET world. Since then, thanks to some fantastic…
Public ATDD with Cucumber Course, March 7-8, Denver (Postponed)
Update: This course has been postponed until June or July. If you’re interested in attending, let me know and I’ll notify you when registration opens…
Just Enough Regular Expressions for Cucumber
Jon Archer wrote last week about how Cucumber makes knowledge of regular expressions important. He’s right: Regular expressions are the key to Cucumber’s flexibility. Well-crafted…
Debugging Cuke4Nuke Step Definitions
At a client today, we were doing some tricky automation with WatiN (against Telerik controls) in Cuke4Nuke. We wanted to dig into what WatiN was…
How to Remove Duplication in Cucumber Tests Using Scenario Outlines
Gojko Adzic has a new blog post demonstrating the new table parameter support in Cuke4Nuke. Table parameters are an important part of Cucumber. They’re great…
The Latest on Cuke4Nuke
This morning, I released version 0.3.0 of Cuke4Nuke. With this release, Cuke4Nuke supports almost everything you can do with Cucumber in Ruby or Java, making…
Screencast: Testing Web Applications in .NET with Cuke4Nuke and WatiN
Yesterday, I released Cuke4Nuke 0.2.2, which added WatiN compatibility and an example of how to use the two tools together. Here’s a short screencast in…
Cuke4Nuke: Cucumber for .NET Teams
Update: If you’ve just landed here, you could get the impression from this post that Cuke4Nuke doesn’t exist yet. It does. Check out this screencast…
Web Testing for .NET Teams: WatiN or Watir?
I’ve noticed a pattern with several of my .NET clients who want to get into automated acceptance testing for web applications. They like the idea…