Tutorials and Related Blog Posts

Here is a list of Cucumber related blog posts/tutorials. Please keep in mind that blogs can become dated quickly with a fast moving project like Cucumber. Cucumber’s RDocs and wiki should be considered the canonical documentation source with the, hopefully, most up to date information. Some blog posts may refer to the RSpec Story Runner but they still provide value since Cucumber started out as a rewrite of that project.

Please add any helpful blog posts that you have found or written about all things Cucumber. Also see Related Tools.

Post	Description	Posting Date
Designing Cucumber scenarios for manual verification	Andy Waite on why you should write Cucumber scenarios with manual execution in mind	April 24 2011
top 3 ways to mess-up a cucumber functional test suite	Vinay Patel shares lessons learnt while working on a huge cucumber test suite	April 21, 2011
Automate your Feature and Acceptance Tests in Four Easy Steps	Dmitriy “DK” Korobskiy on how to get started with Cucumber, Watir, Watir-WebDriver and Hudson/Jenkins	April 5, 2011
Naming and structuring acceptance criteria	Andy Waite on tips on keeping your feature suite habitable	March 31 2011
Reducing step explosion by decoupling Cucumber steps from your GUI	Alister Scott on why page object patterns are important	Jan 23 2011
Simple Cucumber + Watir Page Object Pattern Framework	Alister Scott on Setting up Cucumber with Watir/Watir-WebDriver/Celerity for maintainability	Jan 21 2011
Organizing and classifying Cucumber features: Testing with Vision	Alister Scott on organizing and categorizing features by using tags and directories	Jan 6 2011
The elements of cucumber style	Alister Scott on style guidelines for writing Cucumber features.	Jan 4 2011
workflow: bdd of a blog part 1	behaviour driven development of a simple blog with rails3, cucumber and rspec	Dec 17 2010
The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls	Free online book on Cucumber	Dec 04 2010
Cucumber + Cuke4Duke + Selenium (WebDriver) = Enlightenment	Nice little intro to Cuke4Duke	Nov 30 2010
@cheezy UI Tests series part IV	Default Data	Nov 21, 2010
@cheezy UI Tests series part III	Using a simple DSL	Nov 19, 2010
@cheezy UI Tests series part II	Advanced Page Objects	Nov 13, 2010
@cheezy UI Tests series part I	Avoid brittleness	Nov 9, 2010
An Introduction to Outside-in Development	Thoughtbotter Harold Gimenez walks you through Outside In on Rails3	Oct 05, 2010
Cucumber Sauce	Run Cucumber tests cross-browsers in parallel via Selenium (Repo)	Sept 20, 2010
Practical Cucumber: Organization	Advice for organizing steps and features	Sept 13, 2010
Practical Cucumber: Factory Girl steps	Although they’ve been around for a while, very few people know that factory_girl comes with some really useful cucumber steps.	Sept 9, 2010
Practical Cucumber: Scenario-specific steps	Cucumber steps are meant to be reused.	Sept 8, 2010
Cucumber best practices and tips	Organize, clarify and DRY your cucumber scenarios.	Sept 5, 2010
Testing custom headers and ssl with Cucumber and Capybara	A little capybara hack for modifying the request environment to test custom headers	June 23 2010
Outside-In BDD: How?!	Sarah Mei gives an excellent explanation of the Outside-In workflow.	May 29 2010
Testing Javascript with Cucumber in Javascript	Joseph Wilk presents the new Javascript adapter in Cucumber to write step definitions in Javascript	May 22 2010
Cucumber Makes BDD Cool	A Basic Understanding of Cucumber based BDD	March 30, 2010
Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll	by Ben Hall	Mar 16 2010
Testing Excel with Cucumber	Attila Domokos shows us how to use Cucumber to verify your Excel forumlas.	Mar 14 2010
Java Skeleton Web App + Cuke	Java Cucumber (cuke4duke) Spring 3 and Selenium Test – Jump Start Web Application. Cucumber is used to drive the WebDriver Browser based tests + more	Mar 7 2010
Custom User-Agent with Mechanize	Pete Otaqui explains how to pretend you’re a Palm Pre and other devices	Mar 8 2010
Pairwise testing with Cucumber	Joseph Wilk examines how pairwise testing can help handle combinatorial problems in Cucumber	Jan 9th 2010
BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity	Gojko Adzic gives a great introduction to Cucumber on .NET	Jan 1 2010
Yes Mum, I’ll Behave: Beginning Behaviour Driven Infrastructure	James Turnbull has a long piece on Cucumber and Nagios	Dec 21 2009
Given, When, Then and how not to do it	Perryn Fowler explains some antipatterns	Nov 24 2009
GLSEC 2009 Talk – Driving Behaviour w/Cucumber	Zach Dennis’ beatiful slides give a thorough coverage of BDD, Cucumber, Cuke4Duke and Cuke4Nuke	Nov 23 2009
InfoQ Interview with Aslak Hellesøy on Cucumber For .NET	Aslak compares Cucumber to Fitnesse and explains how Cucumber works on .NET	Nov 12 2009
Cucumber = plain text + Ruby	A short writeup from the Øredev conference and Aslak’s live cucumber cocktail mixing	Nov 11 2009
Test Driven Deployment – mcollective, puppet, cucumber	R.I.Pienaar demos driving his system orchestration tool mcollective with Cucumber features	Nov 6 2009
Behavior Driven Infrastructure	Martin Englund experiments with Cucumber to verify configuration management sets up machines correctly	Nov 6 2009
Using Cucumber with Sketchup	Rich Morin explores designing 3D models with Cucumber	Nov 03 2009
BDD com Rails e Cucumber	Post about Cucumber basics in portuguese	Nov 03 2009
Using Cucumber as a scripting language	Lindsay Holmwood explores using Cucumber for general sysadmin scripting tasks	Nov 1 2009
Testing Couchapps with Cucumber and Culerity	CouchDB and CouchApp goodness	Oct 25 2009
How-to: Use Cucumber with .NET and C# under IronRuby	A short introduction	Oct 14 2009
Getting started with Cucumber, RSpec, Webrat and multiruby	Nice step-by step introduction to Cucumber using Google and Webrat+Mechanize by James Coglan	Oct 3 2009
Rails: RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl	Shannon -jj Behrens explains how to get RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl to all play nicely together	July 17 2009
Rails: Cucumber, Authlogic, and Machinist	How to get Cucumber, Authlogic, and Machinist to work together	Sept 6 2009
15 Expert Tips for Using Cucumber	BDD/TDD guru Dave Astels shares great Cucumber practices	Aug 5 2009
Rails: Dynamic 404s, authlogic, Cucumber, and rescue_from	Shannon -jj Berens explains how to get dynamic 404s, authlogic, Cucumber, and rescue_from to all play nicely together	Aug 13 2009
Slides: Cucumber meets iPhone	Ian Dees is at OSCON showing off a kick-ass way to test iPhone apps	Jul 22 2009
TwitterAuth Integration Testing	Nick Plante explains how to test integration with Twitter’s OAuth using Cucumber	Jul 13 2009
Slides: Cucumbered	Joseph Wilk talking about Cucumber at FutureRuby with an IPhone example	Jul 12 2009
Screencast: Testing Flex Apps with Cucumber	Get your hands dirty with Flex, FunFX and Cucumber	Jul 08 2009
Integration test with Cucumber and Webrat	Presentation in Chinese by Kang-min Liu	Jul 1 2009
Natural Language Acceptance Testing with Cucumber	A nice little writeup in Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk	Jun 27 2009
Introduction to BDD with Cucumber	Great little introduction	Jun 23 2009
Cucumber and Celerity	Testing unobtrusive Javascript	Jun 16 2009
Adding XHTML output validation to Cucumber stories	Use Easy Markup Validation with Cucumber	Jun 16 2009
Cucumber and IronRuby: It runs!	William Green shares updated adventures with Cucumber on .NET	Jun 14 2009
The return of the Cucumber	Noel Rappin shares some thoughts on style	Jun 12 2009
Webrat: Automated Acceptance Testing with RSpec or Cucumber	Side by side comparison of Cucumber and RSpec (in RedMine!)	Jun 11 2009
Cucumber Rocks – But it’s not a replacement for unit tests	Don’t put all your eggs in the Cucumber basket!	Jun 10 2009
Cucumber, Webrat … Who Names These Things?	Nice little diagram explaining how Cucumber relates to RSpec, Webrat and Selenium	Jun 10 2009
Testing Rake tasks with Cucumber	Simple example on how to test rake tasks in Rails	Jun 07 2009
Cucumber scenarios that depend on Sphinx	How to use Cucumber with ThinkingSphinx	Jun 01 2009
Mind the gap	Joseph Wilk’s article in European Software Tester magazine	May 21 2009
What’s Mining: Cucumber support	The JetBrains RubyMine team is working on Cucumber support	May 13 2009
Rails Test Prescriptions	E-book on Rails testing — free version contains long Cucumber tutorial	May 10 2009
New project: Gutkumber	Integration testing for Ruby-GNOME2	May 10 2009
Aslak’s Slides from RailsConf 09	You can get the audio here	May 06 2009
Cucumber is hot technology at developer event	InfoWorld interview with Aslak Hellesøy at RailsConf 09	May 06 2009
More on Cucumber	How to use tables and tags.	May 03 2009
Using Cucumber to test Erlang Servers	Cucumber, JRuby, JInterface and more	May 2 2009
Try adding Cucumber to Watir	Cucumber+Watir tutorial	Apr 17 2009
Building a better World	Dr. Nic explains the Cucumber World and how to upgrade to 0.3.0	Apr 15 2009
20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!	20 awesome links	Apr 9 2009
Cucumber On JRuby inside Eclipse	Allows RCP based apps to be tested with Cucumber	Apr 10 2009
Capistrano recipes with cucumber	Jeff’s Blog @ Pivotal labs	Apr 5 2009
What? NetBeans 6.5.1 Can Now Recognize My Cucumber .feature Files!	Cucumber + Netbeans plugin	Apr 2 2009
Outside-in Development with Cucumber and RSpec	Joseph Wilk’s slides from Scotland on Rails	Mar 30 2009
BDD Step-by-Step Example – part 2	Nicholas’ Blog	Mar 29 2009
BDD Step-by-Step Example – part 1	Nicholas’ Blog	Mar 29 2009
Testing outbound emails Cucumber	Emails….	Mar 26 2009
Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing	Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing	Mar 20 2009
Slides from Outside-In Development with Cucumber	Ben Mabey’s slides from MWRC presentation	Mar 14 2009
Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber	Not detailed, but nice to be on InfoQ :-)	Mar 03 2009
Using Cucumber with Machinist	A basic tutorial for people starting out. Explains how to use machinist instead of fixtures with cucumber.	Mar 08 2009
Testing Dash metrics with Cucumber	Using Cucumber to test metrics	Mar 01 2009
Cucumber metrics with Dash	Gathering progress metrics with Dash	Feb 28 2009
Web app integration testing for sysadmins with cucumber-nagios	Monitor web sites with Cucumber	Feb 23 2009
Mixing Cucumber with Test::Unit/Shoulda	Title says it all	Feb 20 2009
Using Cucumber to Integrate Distributed Systems and Test Messaging	Testing asynchronous messaging	Feb 17 2009
Getting started with Cucumber and Sinatra	Sinatra loves Cucumbers	Feb 05 2009
Leveraging Test Data Builders in Cucumber Steps	Step definitions for creating objects from step tables.	Feb 5 2009
iPhone GUI testing	Cucumber meets the iPhone	Feb 2 2009
Ruby-GNOME2 testing	Testing Ruby-GNOME2 applications with Cucumber	March 8 2009
One Smart Cucumber	Business value	Jan 28 2009
Testing with the help of machinist, forgery, cucumber, webrat and rspec	Using test data with Cucumber in a Rails app	Jan 7 2009
rails 2 day 4: rcov and more behavior-driven development	Cucumber+RCov Tutorial	Dec 29 2008
rails 2 day 3: behavior-driven development	Tutorial of basic Cucumber usage and workflow.	Dec 22 2008
Feature Injection and handling technical stories	Explains how to phrase technical stories and focus on business value in all types of stories.	Sept 10 2008
Telling a good story – Rspec stories from the trenches	Discussion of common pitfalls when writing plain-text stories/features.	Aug 5 2008
Imperative Vs Declarative Scenarios in User Stories	Discussion about trade-offs of different scenario writing styles.	May 19 2008
rspec plain text stories + webrat = chunky bacon!	Motivation and tutorial for webrat in features.	Feb 4 2008
What’s in a Story?	Dan North’s first post about writing stories.	Feb 11 2007