As discussed in a previous blog post, Selenium is a popular choice for automation testing, and when you pair it with Cucumber, you unlock even more benefits. By writing test cases in Cucumberโs human-readable format, teams can improve clarity, boost maintainability, and make collaboration easier โ even for non-technical stakeholders. In this post, Iโll walk you through how to integrate Cucumber with Selenium to create efficient, effective tests that set your team up for success.
Imagine for a moment that weโre getting ready to publish a new app or feature. Following the principles of Test Driven Development (like we always do), we have created a full suite of unit tests. Weโre never pressed for time, so weโve also built out full coverage integration and functional tests.
In order to ensure our front-end is behaving as expected, weโll need to either manually step through the application or just push our commit to the main branch and let our continuous integration pipeline do the building and testing for us. But, if we wrote our end-to-end (E2E) tests without automation in mind, we might find the results lacking in usefulnessโฆ
This post isnโt a discussion on what E2E testing is nor a tutorial on how to get started. For that, resources like Smartbear, CircleCI, and Playwright have already published articles and tutorials that do a great job of covering that ground. In this post, weโll talk through a few tips Iโve picked up over 5 years of championing fully automated end-to-end testing.