Efficient Cucumber Step Regex Matching

TL:DR Avoid using Cucumber Expression if possible. Using the conventional regular expression Cucumber is key to more flexible, reusable and customisable test code. When writing cucumber step definitions, developers and testers often face difficulties capturing parameters in test steps while ensuring that the steps flow smoothly in natural English sentences. Without a good knowledge of general regex, step definitions can appear clunky, even when using Cucumber Expressions to capture step definitions parameters....

June 7, 2023 · 7 min · 1380 words · Choon Meng Yap