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One concrete feature I automated with Cucumber was our user registration and login flow, used by about 50k monthly users. A typical Gherkin file looked like: """ Feature: User authentication Scenario Outline: Successful login Given a registered user "<userType>" When they log in with valid credentials Then they see the dashboard Examples: | userType | | basic | | admin | """ In Java, I mapped steps using parameterized step definitions, e.g. `@Given("a registered user \"(.*)\"")` calling a UserFactory that pulled data from a JSON test-data file. Page Objects handled UI actions, so steps stayed high-level and reusable across ~30 scenarios. We also used Cucumber hooks to manage setup/teardown and tagged scenarios (like @smoke, @regression) to reuse the same steps in different subsets. This structure cut duplicate step code by about 40% and made test data changes a simple JSON update instead of touching Java.
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Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
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