Julian Leviston wrote:
Fair enough.
The steps from step definitions one is the best approach for what I
want, and it's actually what am doing, but I do notice that there's a
lot of the time when I'm actually re-typing the same text (ie once in
the explicit explanation of what it means to log in, and then once
more in the step definitions to refer to that login procedure) when I
do this approach. Re-typing the same stuff is pretty retarded, and
never a good idea.
Hence... my interest in this feature :)
How about this... Whenever I refer to other steps from within my
steps, they should be printed out on the output line... tabbed in a
bit, like so:
Given I am logged in:
Given a default user exists
And I am on the login page
And I fill in "username" with "username"
And I fill in "password" with "password"
Then I should be on the superduper page
Given...
When...
Then...
Then the option to turn this feature off or on on the command line.
We would definitely want it as a feature you could turn on or off. By
default I think it should be off. I think it adds a lot of noise to the
feature output. In most cases I don't care what the exact steps of
logging in are. How I log in can change and it doesn't really effect
this scenario at all. What is important is that you are logged in- not
how you got there. So this is probably not a feature I would personally
use. (Especially, given that I don't use steps within steps a whole
lot.) That said it seems like a reasonable request... Any other
opinions on the suggested feature? Should we move the discussion to
lighthouse?
-Ben
That'd be bloody brilliant. Okay so maybe I should go fork it and do
it :)
Julian.
On 03/05/2009, at 4:50 AM, Ben Mabey wrote:
Julian Leviston wrote:
You know what'd be awesome?
If Cucumber scenarios were referential.
I mean, wouldn't it be awesome if you could refer to them... so you
could build on them...
So in a login.feature I'd define:
Scenario: logging in
Given that a default user exists
And I am on the login page
When I fill in "username" with "username"
And I fill in "password" with "password"
Then I should be logged in
And then in a different feature somewhere else, I could say:
another.feature
Scenario: make toast
Given Scenario "logging in"
Given I am on the exciting logged in page
Then I .... blah blah blah
and so on...
Julian.
Believe it or not, this exact feature did exist in Cucumber at one
time but was deprecated and is now removed. You can find a good
explanation of the reasoning behind that decision and what are the
better alternatives on Joseph's blog:
http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/cucumber-waves-goodbye-to-givenscenario.html
-Ben
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