Chapter 2. Valet Parking Automation

The team decides to start with the Valet Parking examples from Table 1.11 of the parking lot story. The team chooses Cucumber¹ to automate the tests. Cucumber uses Ruby to glue together the data representation of the examples and the system under test. Each set of tests in Cucumber is called a feature. A feature goes into a text file on its own.

1. http://cukes.info

In order to automate a test in Cucumber, we need a combination of features that holds our data, some definition of test steps to interact with the application under test, as well as a set of environmental settings.

Tony has the diagram shown in Figure 2.1 in mind for the overall architecture.

Figure 2.1. Test automation architecture that supports ATDD