Thanks Jason I think I want the business readable stuff to be done first rather than reverse engineered.... or would it be the same thing in practice? >From the website.. "SpecFlow aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications and examples to the underlying implementation."
I am curious to see if anyone actually manages to use it to achieve this lofty goal. It seems to me that the largest part of the battle would be getting the story written in Gherkin in the first place. I tried selling the idea to my client but he felt that it would be too hard. Cheers Kirsten _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2014 6:32 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Specflow Hi Kirsten, it’s worth mentioning that you don’t need to use SpecFlow to do UI automation if you don’t need that business-readable representation of the tests/scenarios. If the test are just for the devs/automation testers then may be able to do without the additional layer. Also check out BDDfy http://docs.teststack.net/bddfy/index.html it lets you create business readable living documentation from your tests, as opposed to writing the tests in business readable language and then implementing the test steps (as with SpecFlow). If you’re doing UI automation then you may want to consider page object models as your tests size/complexity grows - just wrote an article about: http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Using-Page-Object-Models-in-UI-Test-Autom ation.aspx Also for browser automation, check out Seleno: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html Cheers Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Kirsten <mailto:[email protected]> Greed Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2014 3:45 PM To: ozDotNet <mailto:[email protected]> Hi All Not sure if this is OT or not, but is anyone using Specflow? I am wondering if the practice works in reality... www.specflow.org Thanks Kirsten
