It’s a veggie!

But more importantly for BDD it’s a mobile cross platform testing framework used with Cucumber to allow for automation on both Android and iOS.

Currently I’m focused on learning Calabash-iOS so I thought this would be a good time to write an article about exactly what Calabash-iOS is.

Let start by going over the steps about how it works.

• In the Cucumber world you write features that are parsed by a Ruby library
• The library calls the appropriate framework to execute the tests, in our case Calabash.
• Calabash then uses JSON to talk to the HTTP server running on the device.
• The server then translates the JSON to commands.
• The Calabash app then talks to your app.
• The results are then passed all the way back to the client

Or in picture form

My goal is to write tests for a Swift iOS application.

Summary

Well not soon after I started writing the blog post above I got hired as a Senior Automation Engineer and the team had recently retired using Calabash. So I didn’t end up using it :(