Here is a list of Cucumber-related blog posts and tutorials.
Do keep in mind that blogs can become dated quickly with a fast-moving project like Cucumber. Cucumber’s documentation should be considered the canonical documentation source with the, hopefully, most up-to-date information. Some very old blog posts may refer to the “RSpec Story Runner”, since Cucumber started out as a rewrite of that project.
See also Related Tools.
| Post | Description | Posting Date |
| What is BDD? | A definition of BDD by Thomas Sundberg | April 24, 2019 |
| Why we do this | Article by Matt Wynne (Co-founder of @cucumberbdd) on why they do what they do | January 13, 2018 |
| Three ways UI based Cucumber BDD can go bad | Downsides of UI based Cucumber BDD and how to improve | November 30, 2017 |
| BDD is like jazz | How to get the most out of BDD | November 21, 2017 |
| Running Cucumber from the command line | Running Cucumber-JVM from the command line | October 8, 2017 |
| Getting Started with Cucumber and CircleCI | Behavior Driven Deployment and Continuous Integration | March 17, 2017 |
| Cucumber Anti-Patterns | Anti-pattern commonly found when using Cucumber | June 22, 2016 |
| Gradle and Cucumber-JVM | Running Cucumber-JVM with Gradle | December 26, 2015 |
| Cucumber-JVM Hello world with Gradle! | Running Cucumber-JVM with Gradle | August 24, 2014 |
| TuteCumber | An intro-level Cucumber.js Tutorial and example project which uses Cucumber.js (obviously) in a Node.js environment and explores BDD in general | July 17, 2014 |
| Cucumber-JVM Hello world! | A Cucumber-JVM Hello World example as presented at I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014, Bucharest, Romania | May 30, 2014 |
| Cucumber: An Introduction for Non-Rubyists | Setup of Cucumber and basics of Cucumber and Gherkin, written for people with no or only little Ruby experience | August 2, 2013 |
| Testing Web Applications With Cucumber, Capybara, Poltergeist and PhantomJS | Writing beautiful acceptance tests with Cucumber and Capybara | August 2, 2013 |
| Parallel Cross Browser Testing | Go from a blank rails app to using Cucumber, Capybara, and SauceLabs to achieve parallel cross browser tests | June 1, 2013 |
| Top 5 Cucumber best practices | Screencast about 5 basic practices to make your cucumber features more readable and reusable | May 21, 2013 |
| Continuous Integration and Deployment with Cucumber | Screencast about setting up Continuous Integration with Cucumber and Codeship and deploying automatically to Heroku on every change | May 7, 2013 |
| Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber | Screencast introducing Cucumber basics with Ruby on Rails | April 30, 2013 |
| Cucumber-JVM – not just for testing GUIs | Implementing same functionality six different ways to show that Cucumber-JVM can drive any testing tool, not just Selenium WebDriver | November 1, 2012 |
| Test drive an implementation using an Executable Specification | Getting started with Cucumber-jvm as presented at Agile Cambridge 2012 by Thomas Sundberg | September 28, 2012 |
| Acceptance Testing C++ with Cucumber and the Wire Protocol | Overview of using cucumber-cpp for testing C++ applications by Atomic Object (Greg Williams) | May 23, 2012 |
| Testing a C++ application with Cucumber | Felix Petriconi describes how one could pass the gap from the Cucumber/Ruby step definitions to a C++ application | December 21, 2011 |
| Modern Cucumber and Rails: No More Training Wheels | Follow-up to Aslak’s “The training wheels came off” article | November 7, 2011 |
| Testing a web application with Selenium 2 | Thomas Sundberg presenting “Automated web testing with Selenium” at Scandev on tour 2012 | October 18, 2011 |
| The training wheels came off | Aslak explains why web_steps.rb is bad | October 05, 2011 |
| Test drive an implementation using an Executable Specification | Thomas Sundberg presenting “Executable Specifications” at Agile By Example 2011 | September 16, 2011 |
| Conversational patterns in BDD | Liz Keogh describing the role of conversations in BDD | September 22, 2011 |
| Cucumber Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet | Richard Lawrence on the important bits of regular expressions for Cucumber users | August 23, 2011 |
| Getting Started with Ruby, Cucumber, and Capybara on Windows | Richard Lawrence on how to use Cucumber and Capybara on Windows (without Rails) | August 20, 2011 |
| Composable Features | Andrew Premdas talks about applying the composed method technique to features | June 27, 2011 |
| Composable Features and Tables | Andrew Premdas talks about the problems with tables, and why he thinks any table in a cucumber feature is probably a smell! | June 27, 2011 |
| Automate your Feature and Acceptance Tests in Four Easy Steps | Dmitriy “DK” Korobskiy on how to get started with Cucumber, Watir, Watir-WebDriver and Hudson/Jenkins | April 5, 2011 |
| Cucumber + Cuke4Duke + Selenium (WebDriver) = Enlightenment | Nice little intro to Cuke4Duke | November 30, 2010 |
| @cheezy UI Tests series part IV | Default Data | November 21, 2010 |
| @cheezy UI Tests series part III | Using a simple DSL | November 19, 2010 |
| @cheezy UI Tests series part II | Advanced Page Objects | November 13, 2010 |
| @cheezy UI Tests series part I | Avoid brittleness | November 9, 2010 |
| Practical Cucumber: Organization | Advice for organizing steps and features | September 13, 2010 |
| Practical Cucumber: Factory Girl steps | Although they’ve been around for a while, very few people know that factory_girl comes with some really useful cucumber steps. | September 9, 2010 |
| Practical Cucumber: Scenario-specific steps | Cucumber steps are meant to be reused. | September 8, 2010 |
| Outside-In BDD: How?! | Sarah Mei gives an excellent explanation of the Outside-In workflow. | May 29, 2010 |
| Testing Javascript with Cucumber in Javascript | Joseph Wilk presents the new Javascript adapter in Cucumber to write step definitions in Javascript | May 22, 2010 |
| Testing Excel with Cucumber | Attila Domokos shows us how to use Cucumber to verify your Excel forumlas. | Mar 14, 2010 |
| Custom User-Agent with Mechanize | Pete Otaqui explains how to pretend you’re a Palm Pre and other devices | March 8, 2010 |
| Pairwise testing with Cucumber | Joseph Wilk examines how pairwise testing can help handle combinatorial problems in Cucumber | January 9, 2010 |
| Yes Mum, I’ll Behave: Beginning Behaviour Driven Infrastructure | James Turnbull has a long piece on Cucumber and Nagios | December 21, 2009 |
| GLSEC 2009 Talk - Driving Behaviour w/Cucumber | Zach Dennis’ beautiful slides give a thorough coverage of BDD, Cucumber, Cuke4Duke and Cuke4Nuke | November 23, 2009 |
| InfoQ Interview with Aslak Hellesøy on Cucumber For .NET | Aslak compares Cucumber to Fitnesse and explains how Cucumber works on .NET | November 12, 2009 |
| Using Cucumber with Sketchup | Rich Morin explores designing 3D models with Cucumber | November 03, 2009 |
| BDD com Rails e Cucumber | Post about Cucumber basics in portuguese | November 03, 2009 |
| Getting started with Cucumber, RSpec, Webrat and multiruby | Nice step-by step introduction to Cucumber using Google and Webrat+Mechanize by James Coglan | October 3, 2009 |
| Features, Specs and Maps | Andrew Premdas explains what can be gained by thinking about features and specs as different sorts of maps to the territory that is the application | August 31, 2009 |
| Rails: RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl | Shannon -jj Behrens explains how to get RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl to all play nicely together | July 17, 2009 |
| Rails: Dynamic 404s, authlogic, Cucumber, and rescue_from | Shannon -jj Berens explains how to get dynamic 404s, authlogic, Cucumber, and rescue_from to all play nicely together | August 13, 2009 |
| Slides: Cucumber meets iPhone | Ian Dees is at OSCON showing off a kick-ass way to test iPhone apps | July 22, 2009 |
| Integration test with Cucumber and Webrat | Presentation in Chinese by Kang-min Liu | July 1, 2009 |
| Webrat: Automated Acceptance Testing with RSpec or Cucumber | Side by side comparison of Cucumber and RSpec (in RedMine!) | June 11, 2009 |
| Cucumber, Webrat … Who Names These Things? | Nice little diagram explaining how Cucumber relates to RSpec, Webrat and Selenium | June 10, 2009 |
| What’s Mining: Cucumber support | The JetBrains RubyMine team is working on Cucumber support | May 13, 2009 |
| New project: Gutkumber | Integration testing for Ruby-GNOME2 | May 10, 2009 |
| Cucumber is hot technology at developer event | InfoWorld interview with Aslak Hellesøy at RailsConf 09 | May 06, 2009 |
| Using Cucumber to test Erlang Servers | Cucumber, JRuby, JInterface and more | May 2, 2009 |
| Outside-in Development with Cucumber and RSpec | Joseph Wilk’s slides from Scotland on Rails | March 30, 2009 |
| Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber | Not detailed, but nice to be on InfoQ :-) | March 03, 2009 |
| Getting started with Cucumber and Sinatra | Sinatra loves Cucumbers | February 05, 2009 |
| Pop the ‘Why?’ Stack | Requirements management | January 18, 2009 |
| The truth about BDD | A great post by Robert C. Martin about BDD’s Given-When-Then concept where he thinks of them as a finite state machine. | November 27, 2008 |
| Feature Injection and handling technical stories | Explains how to phrase technical stories and focus on business value in all types of stories. | September 10, 2008 |
| Telling a good story - Rspec stories from the trenches | Discussion of common pitfalls when writing plain-text stories/features. | August 15, 2008 |
| What’s in a Story? | Dan North’s first post about writing stories. | February 11, 2007 |
| Introducing BDD | Dan North’s introduction of BDD. | March, 2006 |