How about using Cucumber on desktop software testing

Cucumber is a very powerful BDD tool in rails web application development. But, my question would be, can we use cucumber in desktop开发者_开发问答 software testing area? I really like the BDD conception.

I would suggest getting the book, Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby, by http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/idgtr

Basically you need some way to drive your OS On Windows you can use win32ole to drive Wscript e.g.

s = WIN32OLE.new 'Wscript.Shell'
s.Exec 'notepad'

You don't mention what OS etc...