On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote: > > On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:47, Zach Dennis wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Williams, Wesley >> <wesley.willi...@sabre.com> wrote: >>> >>> Matt, >>> >>> Hmm, I think this is one way to do it. I will need to get my customer >>> to think differently about defining the requirements. They really like >>> the tables. >> >> Some times table just work best. I love writing scenarios with natural >> language, but I've hit many cases where the inputs and outputs are >> best displayed as a table, and it's easier for the customer to gr0k, >> then to read a short novel. >> >> This kind of re-use that you seem to need sounds like a potential >> feature for Cucumber. A way to utilize an external file to house a >> table of data. e.g.: >> >> Background >> Given I have the following set of flights: >> | foo | bar | baz | >> ... >> >> Would become >> >> Background >> Given I have the following set of flights: >> FromFile: flights/scheduleA >> >> And then you'd have the flights/scheduleA house: >> >> | foo | bar | baz | >> ... >> >> Cucumber could dump in the table data it found from the file, and >> print it out when running the scenarios, and it allows some sets of >> sample data be re-used easily, in an understandable manner. >> >> WDYT? > > > This is a good idea - people do this with Fit (as opposed to Fitnesse) and > go straight to a spreadsheet for the examples. > > I don't see why it needs a new Cucumber feature though - you could easily > (and more flexibly) write a custom step yourself to load in the data from an > external file, right?
That's true, but why does everyone need to write their file loading step/code? It seems like something where flexibility really doesn't benefit anyone, unless you are doing something unique and special, which I think is different than simply being able to store example tables in an external file. > > Matt Wynne > http://blog.mattwynne.net > http://beta.songkick.com > > -- Zach Dennis http://www.continuousthinking.com http://www.mutuallyhuman.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
