On 9 Apr 2008, at 22:04, Pat Maddox wrote: > Not bad, but perhaps misleading. Given is used to express > preconditions, wheras When is for an action. Her you are expressing > preconditions, even if those preconditions are action-based instead of > state-based (e.g. the known state of the work is that the user has > performed these actions) > > Does that make any sense?
I knew you would say that :) It just seems unclear, I mean you could turn When the user vists /my_page And clicks the do_something button into either Given the user is on /my_page When he clicks the do_something button or When the user clicks the do_something button on /my_page The first solution looks better, but I guess it depends how atomic you want to make the steps. You could always write this, if you were so inclined... Given the user has a browser And they have typed "http://www.mysite.com"; into the address bar And pressed enter And moved the mouse over the do_something button And pressed the mouse button ... Wouldn't wanna write that as one step... Ashley -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://aviewfromafar.net/ _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
