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SQA, Test Automation & SDET · Course #020

BDD Automation with Cucumber

From the first exercise, BDD Automation with Cucumber treats quality as an engineering and communication discipline. Learners practise how to turn concrete business examples into executable specifications while keeping scenarios readable and automation code maintainable, beginning with bdd purpose and progressing through example mapping and three-amigos collaboration to gherkin grammar. Learners facilitate example conversations, write disciplined Gherkin, implement reusable step definitions, manage data and hooks, and connect scenarios to browser or API automation without duplicating technical detail. The work is reviewed for clarity, repeatability and relevance to real delivery constraints. They leave with a small living-specification suite and a clear understanding of where BDD improves collaboration—and where it becomes ceremony.

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Overview

From the first exercise, BDD Automation with Cucumber treats quality as an engineering and communication discipline. Learners practise how to turn concrete business examples into executable specifications while keeping scenarios readable and automation code maintainable, beginning with bdd purpose and progressing through example mapping and three-amigos collaboration to gherkin grammar. Learners facilitate example conversations, write disciplined Gherkin, implement reusable step definitions, manage data and hooks, and connect scenarios to browser or API automation without duplicating technical detail. The work is reviewed for clarity, repeatability and relevance to real delivery constraints. They leave with a small living-specification suite and a clear understanding of where BDD improves collaboration—and where it becomes ceremony.

Course Highlights

Example-driven discovery

Readable Gherkin scenarios

Reusable step-definition design

Hooks, tags and test data

Living documentation workflow

Modules & Curriculum

BDD purpose: discovery, shared language and executable examples

Example mapping and three-amigos collaboration

Gherkin grammar: features, rules, scenarios and examples

Scenario quality: declarative language and observable behaviour

Step definitions: reuse, cohesion and anti-patterns

Hooks, tags, backgrounds and execution control

Test data and state management across scenarios

Connecting Cucumber to UI or API automation; reporting and living documentation

Refactoring clinic: repairing a brittle BDD suite

Learning Outcomes

  • Facilitate example conversations that expose ambiguity and missing rules.
  • Write concise Gherkin scenarios focused on observable behaviour.
  • Implement reusable step definitions without feature coupling.
  • Organise hooks, tags and data for predictable execution.
  • Integrate Cucumber scenarios with a browser or API automation layer.

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Connect business examples to maintainable automation without turning Gherkin into scripts.

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