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?
Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://beta.songkick.com
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