BDD & Cucumber
Cucumber and Gherkin BDD testing framework
Advanced Cucumber BDD: Screenplay Pattern, Living Documentation, Plugins and Metrics
Advanced BDD with Cucumber: the Screenplay pattern, living documentation and three amigos, custom plugins and event listeners, BDD metrics and quality gates.
BDD for API Testing: Karate DSL vs Cucumber with REST Assured
BDD for API testing: Karate DSL feature files, Cucumber with REST Assured step definitions, sharing state between steps, and when to choose each.
BDD Implementation Challenges in Real Projects
The real BDD Implementation Challenges — writing WHAT-not-HOW Gherkin, step duplication, mapping to code, stakeholder collaboration, test data, and CI .
BDD Hybrid Framework: Architecture, POM, Data, Config & Parallel Execution
Understand the BDD Hybrid Framework — POM integration, folder structure, test data and config management, parallel execution, and the end-to-end execution flow.
Cucumber Step Definitions & Cucumber Expressions
Master Cucumber step definitions — @Given/@When/@Then annotations, undefined and ambiguous steps, parameters, Regular Expressions, and Cucumber Expressions.
BDD Tags & Test Execution: Tagging Levels, Runner File & Smoke/Regression
Use Cucumber tags to control BDD execution — Feature/Scenario/Outline tagging levels, running tags via the runner file or command line, and smoke/regression.
BDD Feature Files: Scenario Outline, Examples & Background Explained
Master BDD feature files — structure, Scenario vs Scenario Outline, the Examples table for data-driven testing, and Background rules (only one per feature).
BDD Fundamentals: Behavior Driven Development, BDD vs TDD & Gherkin
What is BDD? — , why it's used in automation, how it differs from TDD, who writes scenarios, and the Gherkin keywords.