Cucumber BDD Testing Skill

Overview

This skill provides expert-level capabilities for Cucumber-based BDD testing, enabling feature file creation, step definition generation, and living documentation.

Capabilities

Feature File Development

• Write Gherkin feature files
• Structure scenarios effectively
• Implement scenario outlines
• Use backgrounds for common setup

Step Definition Generation

• Generate step definitions from features
• Implement reusable step patterns
• Handle step parameters and transformations

Data Handling

• Handle data tables
• Implement doc strings
• Configure example tables for outlines

Configuration

• Configure Cucumber profiles
• Set up parallel execution
• Configure formatters and reporters

Tag Management

• Implement tag-based test filtering
• Configure tag expressions
• Organize tests with tags

Reporting

• Generate Cucumber reports
• HTML and JSON formatters
• JUnit XML output

Living Documentation

• Generate living documentation
• Keep specs and tests synchronized
• Enable non-technical stakeholder collaboration

Framework Integration

• Integration with Playwright/Cypress
• Integration with Selenium
• Integration with API testing frameworks

Target Processes

• e2e-test-suite.js

  - BDD-style E2E tests

• test-strategy.js

  - BDD strategy implementation

• shift-left-testing.js

  - Early BDD adoption

Dependencies

• @cucumber/cucumber

  - Cucumber.js
• Step definition framework
• Test automation framework

Usage Example

{
  kind: 'skill',
  skill: {
    name: 'cucumber-bdd',
    context: {
      action: 'execute-features',
      featurePath: 'features/**/*.feature',
      tags: '@smoke and not @wip',
      format: ['html:reports/cucumber.html', 'json:reports/cucumber.json']
    }
  }
}

Configuration

The skill uses

cucumber.js

configuration file and supports multiple output formats.