On Thursday, 2 April 2015 at 20:55:04 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
Having never used Cucumber but having been interested in it, what was the unpleasantness?
Dealing with it at work, I find it puts us scarily at the mercy of regexen in Ruby, which is unsettling to say the least. More pressingly, the "plain English" method of writing tests hinders my ability to figure out what the test is actually trying to do. There's not enough structure to give you good visual anchors that are easy to follow, so I end up having to build a mental model of an entire feature file every time I look at it. It's hugely inconvenient. And if I can't remember what a phrase corresponds to, I have to hunt down the implementation and read that anyway, so it's not saving any time or making life any easier.
-Wyatt
