Hi Dave,
the use case of using the GivenStories and parametrised scenarios
together has not been considered yet.
The examples table content is "known" to the given stories, but in order
to pass them to the scenario context we need to come up with some
convention (via some sort of anchor) and be clear of what the convention
means in terms of behaviour.
As I understand it, you'd like the GivenStories to be considered as part
of the parametrised scenario context and be passed the row of parameters
that is being processed as part of a parametrised scenario. I guess,
we could make that the default behaviour, and any parameters passed to
the given stories could be overridden by the execution of the given story.
Cheers
On 19/01/2012 13:24, Dave Carey wrote:
|JBehave provides a nice feature for parameterizing scenarios to allow
repeating tests. As shown in the |documentation:-
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|Given| |a stock of <symbol> and a <threshold>|
|When| |the stock is traded at <price>|
|Then| |the alert status should be <status>|
|Examples||: |
||symbol|threshold|price|status||
||STK1|10.0|5.0|OFF||
||STK1|10.0|11.0|ON|
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I was hoping to trying to extend its use in combination with a Given
Story.
To demonstrate by means of extending the documentation example:-
I want to extend it to support a GivenStory that selects the current
StockExchange
Now the first example would be 'Nasdaq' and the second 'FTSE'.
The hypothetical configuration might then be:-
GivenStories: acme/givenstories/SelectAStockExchange.story
|Given||a stock of <symbol> and a <threshold>|
|When| |the stock is traded at <price>|
|Then| |the alert status should be <status>|
|Examples||: |
||stockExchange|symbol|threshold|price|status||
||NASDAQ|STK1|10.0|5.0|OFF||
||FTSE|STK1|10.0|11.0|ON|
When trying this I found that the 'GivenStory' did not inherit the
parameterized variables.
The alternate was to use the anchor tag
e.g.
GivenStories: acme/givenstories/SelectAStockExchange.story{0}
but now the example parameters are not available to my parent story
AND I can only pass in one row to the given Story rather than
repeating the test.
The documentation does make clear that this is a known restriction -
but I thought I'd post to this forum to see if there is any
recommendation on how achieve the desired behaviour?
thanks
Dave
