Writing tests using Cucumber

Unit testing has been an expected part of the software development life cycle for quite some time now, and one can hardly imagine writing code without having unit tests along with it. The art of testing does not stay the same, and advances in testing philosophies have extended the concept of unit testing even further, introducing things such as service testing, integration testing, and, lastly, what is known as BDD that proposes to create the test suites describing the application behavior at large without getting down to the minute implementation details at the lower levels of the code. One such framework, which has gained a lot of popularity first in the Ruby world and later expanding to other languages including Java, is the Cucumber BDD.

For the purpose of this recipe, we will pick up on our previous example and continue enhancing the testing suite by adding the Cucumber-JVM implementation, which will provide us with the Java-based version of the original...