Let's move this bit of the discussion over to the cukes mailing list.
Are you on that list Ed?
On 11 Dec 2009, at 22:29, Ed Howland wrote:
BTW, does Cuke's wire protocol allow for a mixture of Ruby side and
SUT side step definitions?
Yes. With Cucumber you can implement steps in a mixture of any of the
supported languages, including Ruby code, and any number of wire
servers.
BTW, anyone working on a Cuke4PHP?
That's the first time I've heard anyone even suggest it :) I'd be
happy to
collaborate with someone if they wanted some help with that.
I seriously need this. And am willing to help. Currently we are using
Cuke+Webrat+Mechanize to test only the web facing surface of the app.
But to get things like 'Given I have a user named "Ted" with password
"Secret"' to work and insert into the legacy DB is tricky. If that
step could execute on the PHP side, life would be sweet!
The protocol is documented in the features here:
http://github.com/mattwynne/cucumber/blob/master/features/wire_protocol.feature
http://github.com/mattwynne/cucumber/blob/master/features/wire_protocol_table_diffing.feature
Richard Lawrence has written the reference implementation of a server
in .NET:
http://github.com/richardlawrence/Cuke4Nuke
The great thing about how Richard has implemented his server is he's
written end-to-end tests (in cucumber) that make sure the whole thing
works. See for example
http://github.com/richardlawrence/Cuke4Nuke/blob/master/features/cuke4nuke.feature
AFAIK, there seems to be simple REST servers in at least .Net and PHP.
Fitzgerald for PHP and just using IIS and writing handlers in .Net.
That's great, but we don't use REST for cucumber's wire protocol as I
explained. Dragging the might of IIS around in order to test a
winforms app, for example, would be pretty bonkers IMO.
cheers,
Matt
http://mattwynne.net
+447974 430184
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