Great information guys, making some progress on this end. It is much appreciated.
Discovered that step definitions can not be duplicated even across step files. Is this correct? Thanks again. Sincerely, Tim On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Joseph Wilk <josephw...@joesniff.co.uk> wrote: > David Chelimsky wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Tim Walker <walke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> Things are working great with Cucumber and am getting better at >>> expressing requirements as behaviors. Kudos! >>> >>> I seek a couple of points of clarification, or confirmation, if >>> someone has a minute or two... >>> >>> FWIW - I've read the wiki and the given-when-then page and just seek >>> confirmation: >>> >>> There is no dependency implied in the keywords "given", "then" and >>> "when" (as well as "and" and "but), correct? These are simply naming >>> conventions that denote the well known "Build/Operate/Check" pattern >>> but have no real physical relationship, they're just tags that denote >>> the steps. >>> >> >> Correct. >> >> >>> >>> A "pending" step is any step that has a matching step but nothing is >>> implemented. >>> >> >> Correct. >> > > In the latest version in Github (0.1.13) you can also force steps which have > an implementation to the pending state using the 'pending' method which > works in the same way as Rspec's pending. > > When "I want to be lazy" do > pending "Implement me!" > end > > -- > Joseph Wilk > http://blog.josephwilk.net > >> >>> >>> A "successful" step is any step that is matched, has some code and >>> doesn't assert anything resolving to false. >>> >> >> Or raise an error. >> >> >>> >>> A "gray" out step means that no steps were found that matched the >>> feature. >>> >> >> Blue? Means that a step was found, but a previous step was either >> pending or failed. >> >> >>> >>> You need to be careful that features do not match steps in the step >>> file or cucumber will execute the first step it finds that matches >>> (really don't know how this works, will a test sequence ever go >>> 'backwards'?) >>> >> >> Cucumber tells you when it finds two steps definitions that could >> match the step in the feature. >> >> >>> >>> Going back and changing the stuff in the .feature file is risky as >>> it's very easy to create a mismatch and the step won't be found. >>> >> >> Not sure why that is risky, unless you mean that there are >> non-developers making these changes. If so, then they should probably >> be made collaboratively. >> >> >>> >>> Thanks very much, >>> >>> Tim >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rspec-users mailing list >>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
