Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is very popular with many Agilists out there, specially those focused on Testing. However my view is that BDD is not about Test Automation, it is about collaboration so that the expected behavior of the application can be determined. Cucumber happens to be the tool of choice to implement BDD. While doing this for web applications, we can drive the features through WebDriver. Lately the application development has been inclined towards mobile apps and we need to extend our exiting BDD frameworks to handle app, be it Android, iOS or Win Mobile. Appium is a neat tool for anyone who has exposure to WebDriver, irrespective of that also it is an excellent tool for mobile testing. Here is my video of running Appium tests for android app using Cucumber.

1. BDD Mobile Test
Automation
Integration of Cucumber with
Appium
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2. What is BDD
• Hint: It is not about Test Automation

3. BDD
Business
• Domain
driven design
Technology
• Test driven
development

4. describe the
behavior
of your software
in a very understandable
way
Minimal Definition

5. Cucumber Eclipse Setup
• Eclipse Indigo
• Java Project
• Main and Test Packages
• Resource folder for Feature Files
• Required JAR files
• Junit Test Runner

6. For Web Application
• Driver the web application steps using
WebDriver
– Open Source
– Active Community
– Simple API
– Extendable
– Multi-browser, Multi-plaform, Multi-OS

7. For Mobile App???
• Younger sibling of Selenium (WebDriver)

8. Setup Appium
• Install Android SDK
• Install Node.js
• Install Appium
• Install Appium Java Client
• Configure Appium in Eclipse (preferably
maven project)

9. Start Appium
• You can start Appium server from GUI
• Or from command line
– appium folder /node_modules/appium/bin
– Run node appium

10. POM.xml file to create Eclipse Project
<?xml version=&amp;quot;1.0&amp;quot; encoding=&amp;quot;UTF-8&amp;quot;?>
<project xmlns=&amp;quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&amp;quot;
xmlns:xsi=&amp;quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&amp;quot;
xsi:schemaLocation=&amp;quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd&amp;quot;>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.0.14</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>1.0.14</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

11. Feature file

12. Junit Test Runner

13. Test Output

14. Video
https://www.youtube.com/user/QAAgility

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Practices
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Test Automation
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Automate Web Applications
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Selenium Testing, Cucumber, Appium,
JMeter
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Testing

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exploratory testing school of thought
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chapter and TeStride Mumbai Conference
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and Value Creation.
 Expertise in Non-UI Test Automation
 Certified Coaches/Trainers (ATA – CP-MAT, CP-BAT, CP-AAT, PMI-ACP, SAFe,
Lean Kanban, Serious LeAP)
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