BDD & Cucumber
Cucumber and Gherkin BDD testing framework
REST Assured Practice: CI/CD, Contract Testing & Senior-Level Tasks
Practice REST Assured CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven, nightly runs), contract/mocking, logging & reporting, performance checks, production support, and senior-level ownership
REST Assured Practice: API Chaining, Negative/Security & Data-Driven Testing
Practice REST Assured E2E chaining (login→create→update→delete), negative and security testing (SQLi, XSS, rate limits), and data-driven regression with datasets.
REST Assured Practice: Authentication, Token Handling & Response Validation
Practice REST Assured auth and validation — generate/extract/reuse tokens, expired/invalid tokens, role-based access, and validate status, headers, nested JSON, and
REST Assured Practice: HTTP Methods (CRUD) & Request Data Handling
Practice REST Assured HTTP methods — GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE CRUD validation, idempotency, 405 handling, and request payloads (query/path params, nested JSON, POJO
REST Assured Practice: API Understanding & Framework Setup Exercises
Practice REST Assured onboarding and framework setup — API scope analysis, smoke/regression selection, Maven project, Base URI, BaseTest, utilities, and Git.
Complete REST Assured Practice Roadmap: 17 Modules & 12 Sprints
A complete REST Assured practice roadmap — 17 syllabus modules, a 12-sprint real-project journey, and 6 demo APIs, from fundamentals to CI/CD and senior ownership.
BDD Challenges in Real Projects: Gherkin, Step Duplication & Solutions
The real challenges of implementing BDD — writing WHAT-not-HOW Gherkin, step duplication, mapping to code, stakeholder collaboration, test data, and CI — with soluti
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.
BDD Step Definitions: Annotations, Parameters & 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 suites.
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
Understand BDD — what Behavior Driven Development is, why it's used in automation, how it differs from TDD, who writes scenarios, and the Gherkin keywords.