You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have & in Cucumber Recipes well show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once youve mastered the basics this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes youll test desktop web mobile & server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter & do it well. The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write executable specifications--documents that tell a clear story & also happen to be working test code. Well arm you with ready-rolled solutions to real-world problems: your tests will run faster read more clearly & work in any environment. Our first tips will help you fit Cucumber into your workflow. Powerful filters will tame tables full of test data transforming them into the format your application needs. Custom output formatters will generate reports for any occasion. Continuous Integration servers will run your Cucumber tests every time the code changes. Next youll find recipes tailored to the platform youre running on. Ever wanted to know how to test a Grails app from Cucumber? Need to put a Windows program through its paces? How about a mobile app running on Android or i OS? Well show you how to do all of these. Throughout the book youll see how to make Cucumber sing as you interoperate with different platforms languages & environments. From embedded circuits to Python & PHP web apps Cucumber has something for you. What You Need: Youll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber & Ruby. Individual recipes may have additional requirements; for example a recipe on Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver. Weve written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 & 1.8.7 plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well but these are the ones we test with.