The Cucumber Book

What We Just Learned

With these few examples, you should know enough to start automating tests for your own command-line applications. Let’s review what we have learned:

• Command-line applications all look the same from the outside, whatever language they’re written in.

• We can verify that a command-line application prints what we expect it to print.

• We know how to check that a command-line application exits with a specific exit status.

• You can create temporary files that the command-line application you are testing can use.

• Aruba uses an empty, temporary directory for each scenario.

• Aruba recognizes special tags that let us see more informative output.

• We can use Aruba to interact with simple command-line applications that ask for user input. ...