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What Readers Are Saying About
The Cucumber for Java Book
This book is not just for programmers but for testers as well. It goes beyond using
Cucumber; it gives testing guidelines as well and hints and tips to avoid bad tests.
➤ Janet Gregory
Author, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers (with Lisa Crispin)
If you read this book in the morning, then find a stakeholder quickly enough,
you’ll be writing effective scenarios with that person in the afternoon. Start today.
➤ J.B. Rainsberger
Author, JUnit Recipes
The best thing about this book: it will help you identify WHY you may want to use
Cucumber, and it will guide you to good ways to do it in collaboration with your
whole team.
➤ Lisa Crispin
Author, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers (with Janet Gregory)
This is an excellent introduction to using Cucumber on the JVM that guides the
reader clearly through the complexities of the API and away from common pitfalls
in its application to real projects.
➤ Nat Pryce
Author, Growing OO Software Guided By Tests (with Steve Freeman)
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Not only does [this book] go deep on the technical details of using Cucumber ef-
fectively in a Java environment, it also covers the broader issues of how to succeed
in driving software implementation through readable examples of system behavior,
and as such it will be a valuable reference for the whole team.
➤ David Evans
Author, Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories (with Gojko Adžić)
[If you] implement an application in a test-first manner, taking small and careful
steps and alternating implementation and refactoring phases, your tests will tell
you what to do next. So listen to your tests and listen to this book!
➤ Gáspár Nagy
Creator of SpecFlow - Cucumber for .NET
This book will teach you all you need to know to get started with Cucumber on
the Java platform...although the authors make sure that nonprogrammers can
follow along. It will find its place on my bookshelf and in the book recommendations
I give out in my training classes.
➤ Markus Gaertner
Author, ATDD by Example
This is a great reference guide for software project builds maintainers, because
the authors carefully address the integration of Cucumber with other Java platform
favorites such as JDBC, databases, dependency injection containers such as CDI
and Spring Framework, and REST server-side endpoints.
➤ Peter Pilgrim
Author, The Java EE 7 Developer Handbook
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The Cucumber for Java Book meets an important need—the large Java community
has a great tool in Cucumber but very limited documentation on how to use it
effectively. This is the book I’ll recommend to my Java clients who want to hit the
ground running with Cucumber.
➤ Richard Lawrence
BDD Trainer and Coach, Agile for All
A gentle yet complete introduction to Cucumber on the JVM. An excellent step-
by-step guide with attention to detail.
➤ Paul Grenyer
Founder of Naked Element and NorDevCon
The material [in this book] is built on real-life experiences with appreciation for
the everyday problems we as testers/software architects/managers face both in-
ternally and externally.
➤ Márton Mészáros
Founder of Tailored Tunes and Test Automation Specialist
The authors get the combination of technical and nontechnical lessons across
very well. A very good read for the novice and experienced BDD follower alike.
➤ Craig Harrison
Software Engineer
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The Cucumber for Java Book
Behaviour-Driven Development
for Testers and Developers
Seb Rose
Matt Wynne
Aslak Hellesøy
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