This book changes all that by describing in detail how to use Cucumber to harness the power of plain language specifications in your development process.

You need Cucumber: a testing, communication, and requirements tool-all rolled into one. All the code in this book is updated for Cucumber 2.4, Rails 5, and RSpec 3.5.

We've written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7, plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well, but these are the ones we test with.

Yet they can't always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people.

Written by the creator of Cucumber and one of its most experienced users and contributors, "The Cucumber Book" is an authoritative guide that will give readers all the knowledge they need to start using Cucumber with confidence.

With over forty practical recipes, you'll test desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well.