AU - BDD Cuke

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Agile United – Foundations in BDD with Cucumber (AU – BDD Cuke) is a three-day, intensive, hands-on and interactive training designed to give participants a solid, practical understanding of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and how to apply it effectively using Cucumber, Gherkin, TestNG and modern API testing tools.

This course helps testers, developers, architects, product roles and anyone working with agile teams strengthen their collaboration skills, refine specification quality, and build a shared understanding of software behaviour.

This practical training provides a blend of mindset, methods, techniques and tooling: from agile principles and stakeholder collaboration to writing clean, maintainable scenarios, automating them with Cucumber, and applying BDD in end-to-end delivery workflows. Participants will explore UI tests, API tests, mocking strategies, data-driven testing and CI/CD integration – supported by real-world exercises in a virtual machine environment.

Chapter 1 – Introduction to Behaviour-Driven Development

• What BDD is and how it differs from TDD and ATDD
• History, goals and impact of BDD
• Agile principles in a BDD context
• Roles and collaboration (PO, Dev, QA, stakeholders)
• Writing clear Gherkin scenarios (Given-When-Then)
• Abstraction, reusable steps, communication
• Test types in BDD (acceptance, integration, system, E2E…)
• Data-Driven & Keyword-Driven testing
• Tools & frameworks, pros and cons of BDD

Chapter 2 – Test Automation with Cucumber & TestNG

• Setting up the test environment (Cucumber, TestNG, Maven)
• Creating feature files and step definitions
• UI & functional testing with Cucumber
• Hooks, Runner classes, parameters and data tables 
• Complex data structures and scenario outlines
• Reusability, maintainability and best practices

Chapter 3 – The BDD Cycle

• Why the BDD cycle improves collaboration
• TDD, ATDD and BDD – similarities, differences, use cases
• The full BDD workflow from idea to executable specification
• Practical examples for each phase
• Advantages, limitations and how to apply BDD sustainably

Chapter 4 – APIs, Mocking & BDD with Karate

• Fundamentals of APIs (REST, SOAP, HTTP methods)
• Validating responses, schemas, data types and behaviour
• Using Karate for API testing with Gherkin
• Hooks, variables, matching rules, external data
• Implementing mocks and API test doubles
• Best practices, optimisation and dealing with challenges

Chapter 5 – CI/CD with Cucumber

• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• Introduction & setup of the Jenkins build server
• BDD workflow with Jenkins
• Reporting and generating test reports
• Best practices for organizing tests