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Which brings us to this week’s new book, Cucumber Recipes: Automate Anything with BDD Tools and Techniques. Use Cucumber to power up your career! And read on below about Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and Seven Databases.

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Cucumber Recipes

Once you’ve 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, it gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well.

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, you’ll find recipes tailored to the platform you’re 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 iOS? We’ll show you how to do all of these.

Throughout the book, you’ll see how to make Cucumber sing as you interoperate with different platforms, languages, and environments. From embedded circuits to Python and PHP web apps, Cucumber has something for you.

Now available in beta from pragprog.com/book/dhwcr.

Table of contents:

Cucumber Techniques

• Compare and Transform Tables of Data
• Generate an RTF Report With a Custom Formatter
• Run Slow Setup/Teardown Code With Global Hooks excerpt
• Refactor to Extract Your Own Application Driver DSL
• Compare Images
• Test Across Multiple Cores
• Test Across Multiple Machines With SSH
• Run Your Features Automatically With Guard and Growl
• Add Cucumber To Your Continuous Integration Server
• Publish Your Documentation on Relish
• Drive Cucumber’s Wire Protocol
• Implement a Wire Protocol Listener
  Java
• Use Cucumber Directly With JRuby
• Use Cucumber With Java Via Cucumber-JVM excerpt
• Drive a Spring Model
• Drive Hibernate Persistence
• Drive a Grails Appa
• Test Scala Code
• Test Clojure Code
• Drive a Swing Interface With Marathon
  .NET and Windows
• Get Good Text Output On Windows
• Test .NET Code Using Cucumber Syntax
• Drive a Windows App Using win_gui
• Drive a Windows App Using White
  Mobile and Web
• Test On iOS Using Frank
• Test On Android
• Test Across Multiple Mobile OSes With Calabash
• Test On Windows Phone
• Parse HTML Tables excerpt
• Drive JavaScript / CoffeeScript Using Cucumber-JS
• Test a Web App Using Watir
• Test a PHP App With cuke4php
• Play Back Canned Network Data Using VCR
• Drive a Flash App Using Cuke4AS3
• Monitor a Web Service Using Nagios and Cucumber
  Other Languages and Platforms
• Drive a Mac GUI Using AppleScript and System Events
• Drive a Mac GUI Using MacRuby and AXElements
• Test Python Code Using Lettuce
• Test Erlang Code
• Test Lua Code Using cucumber-lua
• Test a GUI on Linux, Mac, or Windows With Sikuli
• Test an Arduino Project Using Serial
  RSpec Tutorial

Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride

Reader Jeffrey Newman wrote in to tell us about reading Seven Databases in Seven Weeks:

“I have been working with SQL for about 17 years. I thought I knew what I was doing. At first, as I was reading Seven Databases in Seven Weeks I thought, “what the hell are they doing here?” But the more I read, the more I liked it.

“Then I realized, it was a fun read. For a technical book, this is very rare. Then it hit me. Reading this book was like going on “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” at Disney Land. There were turns and twists; you never knew what was around the next corner, but it is/was a lot of fun."

So fire up your blacklights, spin your chair around, and have some real database fun!

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