Quick start

Applies to CucumberStudio Cloud, and to Enterprise ver. 3.3 - 3.5.6.0. Last updated on November 17, 2023

Sample projects

We recommend you to look at the project samples first. They will help you learn the basic concepts of CucumberStudio quickly: scenarios, action words, test runs, and so on. You can create them any time, and you can delete them later at any time.

Project Samples

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After you got the idea, you are ready to create your first project.

1. Create a project

Select + > New project from the menu on the left. In the subsequent dialog box, enter the project name and click Create:

Create a new project

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You will see the project’s Dashboard:

The Project Dashboard

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You may add a description to your project to help your teammates understand its purpose.

2. Create a scenario

Now, we can create a test scenario:

  1. Select Formulation > Native features on the left and then click Create in the Scenarios section.

  2. In the subsequent dialog box, enter the scenario name (Login in our case) and click Create:

    Creating a scenario

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  3. Click the scenario name. This will open the scenario editor:

    Scenario editor

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    Here, for example, you can enter an optional description for the scenario to help your teammates better understand the scenario purpose.

  4. We can add scenario steps now. In the scenario editor, enter the following text into the edit box at the bottom of the Test Steps section —

    Given user logs in with John as username and Newcorp as password

    — and then click Create action word:

    Adding the first step

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  5. Add another step —

    Then user should be logged in

    — and click Create action word again:

    Adding the seconds step

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Here is how your first scenario looks like:

The created scenario

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Great! Let’s now run it.

3. Run scenario

  1. Go to Test runs and click Add new at the top right.

  2. In the subsequent screen, specify the test run’s name (for example, Test Sprint 1) and select the scenarios for the run:

    Creating a test run

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    In our case, we can select Include all test cases to run all existing scenarios (we have only one so far). Later, when you have multiple scenarios, you can click Select a subset of tests and choose only those scenarios that you’d like to run.

  3. After the test run is created, you will see it on the Test Runs screen. Click your test run there:

    Creating a test run

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    This will open the test run’s page.

  4. On the test run’s page, click Resume test to start the manual execution:

    Run the scenario

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  5. Manual execution implies that the QA engineers reads the test instructions on screen, performs them and then log results by changing the status of individual steps or the entire test scenario:

    Manual execution

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    To change the status of a step, simply click the status label. The statuses will switch in a loop: passed, failed, undefined, then passed again, and so on.

    Once you set the status for all the steps, CucumberStudio will automatically set the status for the entire test. Alternatively, you can set the status for the entire scenario using its status label (see the image above). In this case you have a broader range of statuses.

    Let’s change the step statuses. Click their status labels and mark both steps passed. Then click the arrow button on the right to continue:

    Setting step statuses

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  6. We’ve executed all the scenarios in our test run, so we can finish the execution cycle now:

    Finishing execution cycle

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  7. After the test execution is over, you can view summary test results:

    Summary test results

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    Click a scenario name to view results of that scenario:

    Scenario test results

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What’s next?

Below are links to some topics that will help you get most of the product and improve your BDD tests:

See Also

CucumberStudio Documentation
Project lifecycle

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