Cucumber Cookbook

Chapter 2. Creating Step Definitions

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating your first Step Definitions file
• Identifying duplicate and Ambiguous Step Definitions
• Using regular expressions to optimize Step Definitions
• Using Optional Capture/Noncapture groups
• Transforming Data Tables to parse the test data
• Implementing Data Table diffs to compare tables
• Using Doc Strings to parse big data as one chunk
• Combining Doc Strings and Scenario Outlines
• Defining String transformations for better conversions

Introduction

Sometimes people who are not that well versed in Cucumber argue that creating a Step Definitions file is an overhead as compared to the frameworks that do not have Cucumber. But what they don't realize is that Cucumber auto-generates ...