Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver: Complete Guide to BDD Framework Integration Great 2025

📌  Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver

Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver: Cucumber and Selenium are two of the most widely-used tools in the QA automation ecosystem. By combining them, teams can write easy-to-understand test cases in plain English, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

In this article, you will learn how to integrate Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver and create automation test cases using the BDD approach.

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 Table of Contents

1. What is Cucumber?
   
2. What is Selenium?
   
3. Why Use Cucumber with Selenium?
   
4. Prerequisites for Integration
   
5. Required JAR Files and Downloads
   
6. Sample Scenarios using Cucumber with Selenium
   
7. Conclusion
   

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📌  What is Cucumber?

Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver: Cucumber is an open-source tool that supports Behavior Driven Development (BDD). It allows writing test cases in simple, plain-text English using a language called Gherkin.

This makes it easier for business analysts, testers, and developers to collaborate on test automation.

• Gherkin Syntax is human-readable
  
• Features are written in .feature files
  
• Steps are mapped to underlying Java code
  

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📌 What is Selenium?

Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver: Selenium WebDriver is a web automation tool used for functional testing of web applications. It supports multiple programming languages, including:

• Java
  
• Python
  
• C#
  
• Ruby
  

Selenium is widely used for browser-based automation across platforms and devices.

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📌  Why Use Cucumber with Selenium?

Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver: Integrating Selenium with Cucumber enables teams to write automated test scripts that are:

• Easy to read and understand
  
• Maintainable and reusable
  
• Written in natural language, accessible to all stakeholders
  

✅ Benefits of Using Cucumber with Selenium:

Benefit	Description
Readable Test Cases	Use Gherkin to write test cases in plain English
Better Collaboration	Bridges gap between QA, developers, and BAs
Realistic Scenarios	Write test cases based on user stories
Reusable Components	Use the same step definitions across tests

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📌  Prerequisites for Cucumber and Selenium Integration

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed and configured:

 Java Development Kit (JDK)

• Required for running Selenium and Cucumber code.
  

 Eclipse / IntelliJ IDE

• Or any Java-compatible development environment.
  

Selenium JAR Files:

• selenium-server-standalone
  

 Download from: https://www.selenium.dev/downloads

 Cucumber JAR Files:

• cucumber-core
  
• cucumber-java
  
• cucumber-junit
  
• cucumber-html
  
• gherkin
  
• cucumber-reporting
  
• cucumber-jvm-deps
  
• hamcrest-core
  
• junit
  

 All can be downloaded from:

💡 Tip: You can manually download the JARs or manage them via Maven or Gradle for easy dependency management.

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 How to Download Cucumber Core (Example):

1. Visit https://mvnrepository.com
   
2. Search for cucumber-core
   
3. Select version (e.g., 1.2.2)
   
4. Click Download JAR
   

⚠️ It’s recommended to always use the latest compatible versions to avoid dependency conflicts.

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 📌 Automation Testing Using Selenium with Cucumber

Let’s go through three practical BDD Scenarios using Selenium + Cucumber.

✅ Scenario 1: Print Text to Console

Feature File Example:

gherkin

Feature: Print Message

  Scenario: Print Hello World

    Given I want to print a message

    Then Print “Hello World”

✅ Scenario 2: Enter Login Credentials and Reset

Feature File:

gherkin

Feature: Login and Reset

  Scenario: Enter login and reset

    Given User is on login page

    When User enters username and password

    Then User clicks on reset button

✅ Scenario 3: Data-Driven Login Testing with Multiple Sets

This scenario executes login steps with multiple sets of credentials using Scenario Outline.

gherkin

Feature: Guru99 Login

  Scenario Outline: Login with valid credentials

    Given User is on login page

    When User enters “<username>” and “<password>”

    Then User clicks on reset button

    Examples:

      | username | password |

      | user1    | pass1    |

      | user2    | pass2    |

      | user3    | pass3    |

 Note: You’ll need corresponding Java step definitions using Selenium methods like sendKeys() and click() to interact with UI.

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📌  Sample Step Definition (Java)

java

@When(“^User enters \”([^\”]*)\” and \”([^\”]*)\”$”)

public void user_enters_credentials(String username, String password) {

    driver.findElement(By.id(“user_login”)).sendKeys(username);

    driver.findElement(By.id(“user_pass”)).sendKeys(password);

}

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📌  Reporting and Logs

Once test execution is completed, you can generate:

• HTML reports using cucumber-html
  
• Code coverage using Cobertura (optional)
  
• Execution logs for debugging test failures
  

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📌  Conclusion

By integrating Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver, you adopt a powerful BDD testing strategy that ensures collaboration, test clarity, and maintainability.

This combination allows:

• Non-technical stakeholders to understand test flows
  
• Developers and testers to work in sync
  
• Reusable and scalable test automation framework
  

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