On 10/18/07, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > step_matchers("arithmetic") do
> > given_matcher("an addend of $addend") do |addend|
> > @adder ||= Adder.new
> > @adder << addend.to_i
> > end
> >
> > when_matcher("they are added") do
> > @sum = @adder.sum
> > end
> >
> > then_matcher("the sum should be $sum") do |sum|
> > @sum.should == sum.to_i
> > end
> > end
> >
> > That allows you to do something like
> >
> > Story: Adding numbers
> > uses arithmetic vocabulary
> > ...
> >
> >
> > or something along those lines.
>
> I like the idea of mapping a story to a vocabulary. I just don't like
> doing it in the story text itself - seems more dev-facing than
> customer-facing. But perhaps the notion of vocabulary is a good thing
> to have front and center to help the customer understand the
> constraints of what can be written. Need to think about that some
> more.
I know what you mean. It comes across too much as "import some_lib"
to me. Not quite sure what to do about that.
One other idea I had was sticking similar stories in subdirs, each of
which has a helper.rb file. That helper file would load up whatever
step libraries you would want to apply to each story in that dir.
Pat
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