Hi,
We've recently started using JBehave for our testing. It's helping us to
define better system tests which can be added to an automated regression
suite. However, there are a few weaknesses.
One limitation that is really slowing down the writing of tests based on
JBehave is a difficulty in debugging tests when they fail. For example, if
the number of parameters in an examples table is incorrect then the
standard JBehave error messaging is a little obscure. Similarly if a Given
clause is missing, then it is not immediately obvious why the test has
failed.
Is this something that the team are looking to address?
To help address this, we've actually been looking at the JBehave source
code and have started work on implementing a new parser that would
facilitate improvements in the error reporting. It is based on Eclipse
JFace and now allows us to track line numbers in error reporting and thus
makes it much quicker to identify if a test has failed due to an error in
the JBehave script. An added advantage of using this parser is that it can
be re-used for syntax highlighting in an Eclipse editor and the parser is
also very fast compared to the current regex-based parser - as an example,
one of our longest running tests was 25s for the previous parser, and now
its just 0.5s.
Would this new parser be of interest for a future version of JBehave? If
so, how can we arrange to submit the code?
Thanks,
Mike
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