BDD in JavaScript: Getting Started with Cucumber and Gherkin

This repository exists as a set of example implementations of Cucumber.js functionality.
Article URL: https://www.sitepoint.com/bdd-in-javascript-cucumber-gherkin

Examples

This repository has the following set of examples:

• simple - A very simple example that does nothing special
• background - Identical to the 'simple' example in terms of Javascript, but using a Background for common initialisation
• outline - Identical to the 'simple' example in terms of Javascript, but using a Scenario Outline to generate Scenarios
• datatable - Adaptation of the 'simple' example to use a Data Table to add an arbitrary list of numbers
• hooks - Demonstration of a Before hook for resetting data
• events - Demonstration of event handling for the lifecycle of running tests
• world - Demonstration of the World concept for data sharing

Running examples

The examples are all set up to run with either npm Scripts, Grunt or Gulp. They can all be run as either:

• npm run-script
• grunt shell:
• gulp

License

For example, npm run-script simple, grunt shell:background or gulp outline.

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