Episode #461 – May 2nd, 2014

Test-induced design damage, Frocking the console, Advanced Rake and Mutation Testing

20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!

April 10, 2009

Cucumber has been getting quite a bit of attention in the community and with the new RSpec Book on nearing publication, I predict that by this time next year, it’ll become a household word like boanthropy.

What is Cucumber?

The Cucumber project describes itself as a suite that, “lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.“

One of the great things about Cucumber is that it can be used to test applications in any language. I haven’t been able to track down a lot of articles of how people are using it with other languages, so please comment if you’re aware of some.

In any event, I’ve been collecting and reading resources from a variety of Cucumber aficionados and thought I’d share some links with you. To round it out, I asked on twitter for some others so that I could hit twenty. :-)

What’s in a Story?, Dan North
Telling a good story – Rspec stories from the trenches, Joseph Wilk
Beginning with Cucumber, Ryan Bates (Railscasts)
Using RSpec, Cucumber and User stories to build our internal systems, Rahoul Baruah
Cucumber: The Latest in Ruby Testing, Ruby Inside
Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing, Noel Rappin
Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber, Brandon Keepers (presentation/slides)
Testing capistrano recipes with cucumber, Jeff Dean
Using Cucumber to Integrate Distributed Systems and Test Messaging, Ben Mabey
Tutorial: How to install/setup Cucumber, Alan Mitchell
Testing outbound emails with Cucumber, Dr. Nic Willians
Proper Cucumber Sintatra Driving, Chris Strom
On getting started using Cucumber for .NET
DRY up your Cucumber Steps, Matt Wynne
Cucumber, Celerity, & FireWatir, Aidy Lewis (presentation/video)
Cucumber step definition tip: Stubbing time, Bryan Helmkamp
Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber, Sebastien Auvray
Testing Facebook with Cucumber, Brandon Keepers
Testing with the help of machinist, forgery, cucumber, webrat and rspec, Etienne van Tonder
Integration testing SSL with Cucumber
Continuous Integration Blueprints: How to Build an Army of Killer Robots With Hudson and Cucumber

So.. there you have it. Please post comments with links to any useful articles not mentioned and I’ll try to keep the list updated.

Also, be sure to check out the list of tutorials and related blog posts on the cucumber wiki (github).

FREE RECIPE: Cucumber Water

And now…for the reason you are all here! If you like cucumbers (eating them)... I would highly recommend heading to your local farmers market and purchasing some cucumbers. Aside from being healthy to eat… they can help make a tasty beverage.

Then do the following…

Chop several slices of a cucumber
Fill a pitcher with cold water and ice
Toss in slices of cucumber
Stir and leave in fridge for a while
Take out of fridge, pour into cup…
Drink… hack… and enjoy

Be sure to check out, How to Make Cucumber Water on wikihow for details.

Happy Hacking!

The Ruby Rails Aggregator