[jbehave-user] Some interesting features I discovered for JBehave

2013-11-27 Thread Hans Schwäbli
I read a bit The Cucumber Book in order to find best practices when writing BDD tests. It is very similiar, so I could find some. When I read across the book, I discovered some cool features which might be good for JBehave too. *Background* For instance there is a feature called Background.

Re: [jbehave-user] Some interesting features I discovered for JBehave

2013-11-27 Thread Mauro Talevi
Hi Hans, thanks for your suggestions, always welcome. To answer your points: 1. JBehave now supports the Lifecycle Before and After syntax (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JBEHAVE-906): http://jbehave.org/reference/preview/story-syntax.html Lifecycle Before is equivalent to Gherkin's

Re: [jbehave-user] Some interesting features I discovered for JBehave

2013-11-27 Thread Hans Schwäbli
Hello Mauro, thank you for your answer. 1. Sounds great! 2. I think it could be implemented in a way that story writers don't see the regex but a parameter name. The regex would be contained just in the step definition to provide an instant feedback in the story editor on whether the paramter

Re: [jbehave-user] Some interesting features I discovered for JBehave

2013-11-27 Thread Mauro Talevi
Hi, Parameter value validation could be a useful new feature if it was configured via annotations.Feel free to raise a new JIRA issue for this and to add some initial use cases. In particular sometime more than simply it's a int or a String - because that already comes out of the box