What Is Not in This Book

Although it is possible to test Flash and mobile applications using Cucumber, the details are sadly beyond the scope of this edition. Similarly, the flavors of Cucumber that run natively on the JVM, JavaScript and C#, allowing you to write your Cucumber code in the same language as your production code, will not be covered. Cucumber’s wire protocol (a protocol for driving remote systems over a TCP socket) is also out of scope.

We have provided a list of pointers to further information on this subject in Appendix 1, ​Using Cucumber with Other Platforms​. For further information about using Ruby to automate and test different kinds of system, we recommend getting a copy of Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby [Dee08] by Ian Dees to compliment our book.