Using Behave and Selenium WebDriver in Python

Behave is a BDD framework available in Python. It provides a very similar approach to Cucumber.

In this recipe, we will see how to use Behave and Selenium WebDriver to test a fund transfer application.

Getting ready

You need to install Behave using the following command:

pip install behave

How to do it...

In Behave, we need to create a features file for the stories under test. These stories are written in the Gherkin language with the Given, When, and Then structures in the Cucumber format. Perform the following steps to create a feature and step definition file with Behave:

1. Create a folder named fundtransfer and then create two subfolders, features and steps, in the fundtransfer folder.
2. In the feature folder, create a plain text file named fundtransfer.feature, as follows:

   Feature: Customer Transfer's Fund
          As a customer,
          I want to transfer funds
          so that I can send money to my friends and family
   
   Scenario: Valid Payee
      ...