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Cucumber Cookbook

You're reading from   Cucumber Cookbook Over 35 hands-on recipes to efficiently master the art of behaviour-driven development using Cucumber-JVM

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785286001
Length 162 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shankar Garg Shankar Garg
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Cucumber Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Writing Feature Files FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Step Definitions 3. Enabling Fixtures 4. Configuring Cucumber 5. Running Cucumber 6. Building Cucumber Frameworks Index

Using Doc Strings to parse big data as one chunk


Now let's consider a situation where we have to specify a lot of text in multiple lines (not in the shape of a table)—something like a few lines from a blog or a book. So, how do we handle this in Step Definitions? This is called passing Doc Strings in test Steps. Based on what we have covered until now, we can use regular expressions; but this is helpful for the first line only, and the text in all the other lines will be missed. In this recipe, let's see how to handle this situation.

How to do it…

  1. Let's consider the following Step in our Feature file for this exercise:

    Given a book named "cucumber cookbook" with following body
      """
      Title – Cucumber cookbook
      Author of this book is first time writer so please excuse the naïve mistakes. But he will definitely improve with chapters he writes.
      """
    

    Here, the highlighted text is the Doc String that we will be passing to the Step Definitions.

  2. Save and run the Feature file, and copy and paste...

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