You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have and in Cucumber Recipes well show you how to apply our hardwon field experience to your own projects. Once youve mastered the basics this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumberfrom specific situations to advanced testwriting advice. With over forty practical recipes youll test desktop web mobile and server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter and do it well. The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write executable specificationsdocuments that tell a clear story and also happen to be working test code. Well arm you with readyrolled solutions to realworld problems your tests will run faster read more clearly and work in any environment. 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 youll find recipes tailored to the platform youre 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 Well show you how to do all of these. Throughout the book youll 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. What You Need Youll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber and Ruby. Individual recipes may have additional requirements for example a recipe on Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver. Weve written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7 plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well but thes