BDD - GHERKIN FOR OCTOPARSE APPLICATION

Octoparse is a web scrapping tool used to extract web data without coding.You can use the free version where you can work up to ten task or paid subscription with more service included.

Let's see some examples of writing Gherkin for Octoparse application.

Feature: As a user checking the Login and logout page.

Scenario: to login the application

Given the application is installed

And the user is in the Login page

When the user enters valid username and password

And clicks Login button

Then the user logs in the application

Scenario: forgot password

Given the user is in application login page

When the user enters valid username and clicks forget password

Then it should redirect to forget password in application web page where user needs to enter username and email and click “Submit”

Scenario: invalid password

Given the user is in application login page

When the user enters valid username and wrong password

Then “the username or password is incorrect” message pops up in the login page

Scenario: remember password

Given the user is in the Login page

When the user enters valid username and password

And selects the “Remember Password” checkbox before he clicks the Login button

Then the user password is auto filled during his next sign in

Scenario: auto login

Given the user checked the auto login checkbox in his previous sign in

When the user launches the application

Then the login page window pops up with a message “cancel Auto Login” with a 5 second timer

And then opens the application home screen

Scenario: cancel auto login

Given the user checked the auto login checkbox in his previous sign in

And launches the application

When the login page window pops up with a message “cancel Auto Login” with a 5 second timer

Then the user should click “cancel auto login” before the timer ends

Scenario: To sign out or exit the application

Given the user is in home screen of the application

When the user clicks Exit file “red x button” on top left corner to logout the application

Then the user gets a popup message “Are you sure you want to exit?”

And the user has to click “confirm” to exit

Feature: to create a task as a user and extract data in local run

Scenario: to build a new task

Given the user has logged in the application

When the user enters the valid web page URL in the home screen search bar

And clicks Start

Then new tab is opened next to home screen and the web page starts to load in the built-in browser in the work space

Scenario: to detect the data when loading the web page

Given the user logged in the application

When the user entered valid web page URL in search bar and press enter in the home screen

Then the new task begins and the application starts to detect data from the built in web page under the tip window

Scenario: to check auto detect is completed

Given the user entered the web page URL in search bar

And clicks start

when the web page starts loading in work space

Then it should pop up message saying 100% auto detect completed

Scenario: to fetch data as per users need

Given the user entered the valid web page URL in the home screen

when the user didn’t get the expected data from auto detect

Then the user can click “not the right webpage” to modify according to his needs

Scenario: to feed the input for text box in the webpage

Given the user loaded the webpage in work space

When the user double clicks the text box in the built in browser

And selects “enter text” in Tips window

Then the user can enter the text and confirm the action

Scenario: Text box added in workflow

Given the user clicked the textbox in the in-built browser page

And entered the text in Action tip window and clicked "confirm"

Then the user can see text box added in his workflow

Scenario: related findings in Tips window

Given the user loaded the webpage in workspace

When the user clicks for example textbox in the webpage

Then the user should get related findings in Tip window like “Search with Keywords”

Scenario: to create a Workflow

Given the user created a task and performs some action in built-in browser workspace page

When the user got the data to be scraped

Then the user can click Create workflow button to create the work flow which can be seen in the right side of work space

Feature: run the task in local device

Scenario: To run the task on local device

Given the user created the workflow

When the user clicks “Run on your device”

Then the application starts to run the page and stores the extracted data in the local device

Scenario: to save the exported data in excel sheet in the local device

Given the user run the work flow on local device

When the user wants to store the extracted data in excel sheet

Then the user should select the excel sheet radio button and click ok

Scenario: to open the extracted data for the local run

Given the user did a local run

When the user the extracted the data in the device

Then the user can store the data to the local device and open the file

Scenario: to clear data and run the task

Given the user created the workflow for the webpage

When the user wants to run the task again

Then the user should select” Clear data & run” to delete the data from previous run, from the Tips window

Scenario: Auto detect web page data

Given the user loaded the webpage

And created the workflow

When the user wants to detect the data automatically

Then the user can click “Auto detect web page data” to extract the data and data can viewed in the data preview window

Scenario: to check the task in Dashboard

Given the user is in home screen page

When the user want to check all his task

Then the user should click Dashboard to check all his task

Scenario: Run completed window

Given the user created the workflow

When the user run the task in local device

Then the user should get “run completed” popup window after the task is completed.

Scenario: to create more than ten task in free version

Given the user already created ten task in the application

When the user tries to create a new task

Then the message pops up saying "Maximum task created"