hey there,
this here may be a little too general, and maybe is only a though sharing,
but would be nice to hear what you think.
What is your opinion about expectation steps that negates another
expectation step?
for example: let's say I have a step that specs something:
Then /^I should see the people search form$/ do
response.should have_tag('form#search')
# this of course could get more complex, like several expectations in a
row or so
end
then I would like to reuse the step but negating it, like:
Then /^I should not see the people search form$/ do
!(Then "I should see the people search form")
end
this wont work because spectations (or some of them) of the first step will
fail. A low level implementation of this could be something like:
Then /^I should (.*) see the people search form$/ do |bool|
post_fix = "_#{bool}" if bool
# allow the incompleteness of this line, but you get the idea :-)
# it'll send should or should_not
response.send("should#{postfix}", have_tag('form#search') )
end
but here there are considerations regarding unreadability of the step, but
anyway the question again:
would this be too bad? too problematic? what do you think about expectation
steps negating another expectation steps?
cheers
joaquin
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