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Data table: Adding a data table

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Data table: Adding a data table

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- Cucumber Data Tables. When you supply tabular data to a scenario step, Cucumber generates a special data type, called Data Table. You need to write data parsing logic to parse data in these data tables. There are many ways to parse data from this data table, which makes the process somewhat confusing. In this lesson, we will take a look at a few data parsing techniques and understand which approaches may be more applicable, depending on how data is supplied. So, let's go ahead and add a new feature file I'm going to call this datatable.feature, or datatables.feature, and I'm just going to remove all the default text that comes here. It's going to be very useful in a real-life project. We don't need to use these right now. Let's add feature name, called Data Tables, and, within that feature, let's define a scenario, and I'm going to call this scenario Bill Amount Generation. I'll go ahead and use an existing scenario. So, this is the scenario I'm going to copy and use in my file. The…

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