Andrew Premdas wrote:
> Pretty hard for me to comment with so much stuff and so little context.
> However :)
My messages are quite long enough as it is I am afraid.
> about a work order to produce invoices. You have to do some design and
> thinking to produce good features. Challenge assumptions and try and see
> things from different view points. For example why can't I just do
>
> Given outstanding payments
> When I visit the make invoices page
> I should see a list of invoices I can create
>
> And then do some other little scenarios to create an invoice etc..
>
> HTH
It always helps to have another point of view. I am grappling with this
issue mentally before committing myself to a line of approach. This
project is, as you surmise, a conversion of an existing body of work
into a new form. It is also anticipated that the existing application
will be extended in many areas. The scope of the project encompasses
everything from General Ledger down to edi transmission of tax documents
to the federal government.
I am trying to determine whether the way to control and document this
project while focusing programming activity is best served by using BDD
features or whether those objectives should be satisfied otherwise and
BDD features only used for specific implementation issues. Part of my
difficulty is my limited vocabulary for expressing this and part is my
want of experience with this form of design and development. My
previous experience was with much less sophisticated tools than I am
currently using and I am reluctant to turn a scalpel into a screwdriver
out of ignorance on my part. On the other hand, if a jack hammer is
needed then a scalpel is not of much use.
So reworking my earlier effort:
Feature: Bill chargeable work
In Order To generate income
A Billing Clerk
Should be able to create invoices
To Increase Revenue
Scenario: Manual Invoice Release
Given billable charges
When I visit the create an invoice page
Then I should see a list of all billable charges
Scenario: Manual Invoice Release by Client
Given billable charges
When I visit the create an invoice page
And I search for client "Y"
Then I should see a list of all billable charges only for client "Y"
Is this getting closer to what my features should look like?
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
_______________________________________________
rspec-users mailing list
rspec-users@rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
