I am changing the subject line to make the discussion broader. Anybody have any experience with Robot / Cucumber / etc as test automation frameworks?
Cucumber / Lettuce looks nice for developers -- but I am not sure how it can be used for automating the same testcase with a wide variety of input variables. On 1/23/13 10:22 AM, "Chirag Jog" <chi...@clogeny.com> wrote: >Interestingly we had evaluated the robot framework : >https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/ which isn't really a DSL but >more >of a keyword driven BDD. One can define key words that map to real actions >as mentioned in the above thread. It generates logs in HTML format as >well. > >Regards*,* >*Chirag Jog* >Chief Technology Officer, >*Clogeny Technologies* | http://clogeny.com >(M) 0091-9766619440 | Skype: chirag.jog > > > >On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> >wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 06:51:07PM -0500, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: >> > The idea would be that a dev/QA working on a feature could write a >>test >> > case like: >> > >> > Feature: AWS-style health checks >> > In order to foo blah blarg >> > >> > Scenario: create health check >> > Given a zone of type "Advanced" >> > And a user named "John" >> > And a loadbalancer rule called "LB1" created by "John" >> > When "John" creates a health check of type "Blargh" for "LB1" >> > Then "John" should see <dictionary> >> >> yup - i checked cucumber for the tokens. it does look enticing. i'll >> figure out a similar grammar to see if we can express cloudstack tests >> and share on the lists. And then go on to build the parser/ASTs. >> >> -- >> Prasanna., >>
