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Beginning with Cucumber

#155 Beginning with Cucumber

Mar 30, 2009 | 15 minutes | Testing, Tools, Plugins
Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.
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