Thanks David,
Maybe my steps are too granular and I will link them up as suggested.
What I do like though is re-using steps in different domains.
So I can have
When "clicks '$link_text'" do | link_text |
browser.link(:text, Regexp.new(link_text)).click
end
When "clicks on '$button_value' button" do | button_value|
browser.button(:value, button_value).click
end
Which will click any link and button, so I can say to a manual tester
and/or BA follow this step format and we have done a lot to actually
having the automated UI testing straight away. Obviously this will not
work on domain specific steps.
Aidy
On 16/06/2008, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2008, at 6:27 AM, aidy lewis wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a number of scenarios that are virtually the same apart from
> > one piece of test data
> >
> > Scenario: The user is returned search links with expected search
> > text description
> > Given a logged in xx user
> > When clicks 'Advanced Search'
> > And enters 'Aidy' in the Contributors field
> > And clicks search
> > Then the resultant links are displayed with the search text in
> > each description
> >
> > So, in the first clause of the When method, I would like to change the
> > string value.
> >
> > Is there any way of doing this better than copying and pasting the
> > above Scenario with one different string value and re-running that
> > test?
> >
>
> For now, no. There is an idea in the works. For right now, I would merge
> some of those steps:
>
> Scenario: display search links
> Given I am logged in as David
> When I do an Advanced Search for Contributors: 'Aidy'
> Then I should see blah de blah
>
> That one When covers the three in the original example, and reads quite
> naturally in the domain, no?
>
> In the future you'll be able to do *something* like this:
>
> Scenario: display search links
> Given I am logged in as David
> When I do an Advanced Search for Contributors: 'Aidy'
> Then I should see blah de blah
>
> More Examples:
> |User |Query |Result |
> |David |Contributors:'David' |RSpec |
> |David |Contributors:'Joe' |this or that |
>
> Not exactly sure how that's going to look yet, but it's basically a
> FIT-inspired tabular input/output format with the columns bound to the last
> Scenario. Coming soon to a workstation near you (but not too soon).
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> Cheers,
> David
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