On 7 Nov 2008, at 15:38, Aslak Hellesøy wrote:
Hi,
The customer is not happy about writing Stories in a text editor.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is anyone using a wiki,
spreadsheet,
or word document and automatically converting to a text file?
There will be custom editors/wikis with aides like code completion,
nice visuals, running etc. Kinda like FitNesse, but nicer.
The plan is to make a RESTful API for Cucumber. I'm thinking a
Sinatra web app that uses the Cucumber CLI and exposes it with
AtomPub or a similar JSON api. The server would be part of the
Cucumber gem, and can be started up with a single command on any
machine.
From there I hope to see people developing richer clients like
standalone web apps, wikis, wiki plugins, Flex/Air apps, editor and
IDE plugins, hell, word and excel plugins in VB.NET even!
My experience tells me you can't get the customer/business to be
comfy in a simple text editor. I have accepted that as a fact it's
not worth working around in most cases. Kudos to those who can, I
know some teams succeed.
I have talked to a student who's working on the REST part as part of
his thesis. Please work with him if he shows up here on the list.
In order to successfuly make a usable REST API/server I will focus
the next weeks and months on improving Cucumber internals. Part of
that is an AST that will make manipulation of features, scenarios,
tables and steps easier, as well as a better data structure for
output and errors.
I have started this work and I'm trying out different ideas. I
expect to make some visible progress before the end of the year.
Then I expect all the Cucumber forkers to take it and run. Thanks
for all the great contributions so far folks!
Very nice indeed.
If you can come up with some kind of mock suite for the API interface,
that might help us get going with something.
It would be really cool to have a web editor for features that doubles
as a textbook RSpec / Cucumber reference app to answer the FAQ
Fernando asked a few days ago ('is there a good example of a rails app
using RSpec'). I'd love to collaborate on such a project.
cheers,
Matt
http://blog.mattwynne.net
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