Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-11-17 Thread Dan North
2008/10/26 aslak hellesoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Stephen Eley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Ben Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more qualified person may want to answer your question, but my short explanation of the change of the

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-26 Thread Ashley Moran
On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:19 am, Ben Mabey wrote: A more qualified person may want to answer your question, but my short explanation of the change of the default narrative layout is to state the business value at the start instead of the end. I do this, and updated my TextMate Cucumber

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-26 Thread David Chelimsky
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:19 am, Ben Mabey wrote: A more qualified person may want to answer your question, but my short explanation of the change of the default narrative layout is to state the business value at the start

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-26 Thread Stephen Eley
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Stephen Eley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer (and still use) the old way for grammatical reasons. Putting the dependent clause of a sentence ahead of the independent clause that it's dependent is awkward and distracts from the reading. Argh. That should

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-26 Thread Ashley Moran
On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:59 pm, Stephen Eley wrote: I believe there's an old Internet law that states that any post bitching about grammar is guaranteed to contain at least one grammatical error, but I can't be bothered to look it up. Read too much Slashdot, you do ;) --

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-26 Thread aslak hellesoy
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Stephen Eley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Ben Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more qualified person may want to answer your question, but my short explanation of the change of the default narrative layout is to state the business

[rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-25 Thread Mark Thomson
In the old Story Runner framework the feature description had a preamble that looked like As a... I want... So that... When I was moving to cucumber I seem to remember reading somewhere that that formulation was being changed, and indeed the example here -

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-25 Thread Ben Mabey
Mark Thomson wrote: In the old Story Runner framework the feature description had a preamble that looked like As a... I want... So that... When I was moving to cucumber I seem to remember reading somewhere that that formulation was being changed, and indeed the example here -

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-25 Thread Mark Thomson
Thanks much. Mark. Ben Mabey wrote: snip The preamble or narrative doest not effect the actual running of the feature but like you said, it acts as an aid to answer upfront the most important question about this feature - why am I implementing it? Or in other words, what is the business

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber feature description

2008-10-25 Thread Pat Maddox
A more qualified person may want to answer your question I think you are plenty qualified :) but my short explanation of the change of the default narrative layout is to state the business value at the start instead of the end. Exactly what I was gonna say. However, you shouldn't feel