Comments on: 15 Expert Tips for Using Cucumber

By: Karthik

Karthik — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:41:33 +0000

Treat them as if you were reading book. Create meaningful sub-directories based on functionality and club them together.

By: raveendran

raveendran — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:09:37 +0000

Can we able to run 2 different feature files at a time ? — (Note — most of the scenario's common for 2 feature files.)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:02:22 +0000

Anyone have good examples of how to manage a large number of cucumber features? It seems like once you get 50+ feature files it gets a bit unmanageable…

By: Abhishek Shukla

Abhishek Shukla — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:29:28 +0000

Very useful tips thanks for sharing this really helped me to generate a better scenario. And also I am looking if you can tell us something on action mailer, like a scenario where a user will sending a multiple mail along with a body containing a activate link.

By: Andrew Premdas

Andrew Premdas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:00:11 +0000

Useful tips, have to disagree with #13 though, I think if you do this a bit you will inevitably get carried away! I would say now never call a step from a step, instead extract a method and put it in a step helper. So to use your example

module UserStepHelper

def user_creater(name) …

def user_login_in(name) …

end

World(UserStepHelper)

Given /^the user (.*) exists$/ do |name|

user_create(name)

# … perhaps something here to confirm user creation

end

Given /^I log in as (.*)$/ do |name|

user_login_in(name)

end

Given /^(.*) is logged in$/ do |name|

user_create(name)

user_login_in(name)

end

This will save you much time in future when your "do complex operation" feature that requires and admin user and a customer and … fails.

By: cire

cire — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:20:02 +0000

I wonder if this might limit the thoroughness of the testing. What if the application works great on Fridays, but has a bug when using it on Mondays? I wonder if Chronic addresses weekends directly.

By: jazzezravi

jazzezravi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:04:12 +0000

Awesome tips!

By: Aslak Hellesoy

Aslak Hellesoy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:03:32 +0000

Excellent tips Dave! For more blog links - check out http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/tut...

By: Abe

Abe — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:22:00 +0000

Can i also recomend that you explore using something prebuilt for saing a lot of time and work like Reuse Step Definitions = Start with Pickle http://github.com/ianwhite/pickle/tree/master

By: danieroux

danieroux — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:26:20 +0000

As to step 10 (parsing time):

Another thing to consider is to always reset time to some know start time before every scenario (I prefer 13 August 2005 – Friday the 13th).

This is important once you start adding features that act differently over weekends/holidays.

e.g. if you have a known start time, "interest for the next week, compounding on work days" will always give a predictable answer.