Cucumber Recipes

Recipe 14

Drive Cucumber’s Wire Protocol

Problem

You’re writing Cucumber tests to drive an application that doesn’t provide an easy way to integrate Ruby, such as PHP, ActionScript, or C++.

Ingredients

• A wire file for driving Cucumber’s wire protocol^[91]

Solution

In 2009, the Cucumber team was looking for a way to connect Cucumber to environments that don’t have direct Ruby integration. They came up with the wire protocol, a simple text format through which Cucumber can talk to an external process over TCP and ask it things like, “Do you have any step definitions matching When I withdraw $100?”

Ian says:

Remote Testing

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