Tutorials and Related Blog Posts

Here are 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.

Post	Description	Posting Date
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	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
Using Cucumber to Integrate Distributed Systems and Test Messaging	Testing asynchronous messaging	Feb 17 2009
Integration testing SSL with Cucumber	How to test SSL in Rails	Feb 16 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
Cucumber step definition tip: Stubbing time	RSpec stubs in Cucumber	Feb 2 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