Another thing I'm looking into is trying to hook into the visitor/formatting stuff and just spit out the extra data fixture data when the test runs... thoughts anyone?
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, John Goodsen <jgood...@radsoft.com> wrote: > I have the following step that I want to re-use in several scenarios. It > looks like this: > > When I submit the form > |form_field_id |value| > |billingAddress.email |mickey_mo...@test.com| > |billingAddress.firstName |Mickey| > |billingAddress.lastName |Mouse| > |billingAddress.street1 |249 Cross Road| > |billingAddress.city |Sanford| > |billingAddress.subCountry |ME| > |billingAddress.zipPostalCode|04073| > |billingAddress.country |US| > > This step fills out a form using Selenium behind the scenes. It's been > copied into several scenarios and I want to DRY it up. I DRY'd this up by > moving this table data into a fixture file (mickey_mouse.yml), but then the > test becomes less descriptive - the original scenario step above turned into > a one-liner: > > When I submit the form for "mickey_mouse" > > I think ideally, I would like some kind of "include_step" feature in > cucumber - where we can write partial snippets and include them wherever I > want. When cucumber runs, it can replace the included step. So I could > keep my tests DRY with something like: > > When I submit the form > Include 'submit_form_for_mickey_mouse' > > but when I run the test, cucumber would spit out the partial contents in > place of the Include to make the test more descriptive. > > Is there anything in cucumber that would help me out right now? What I'm > currently looking into is hooking into the formatting and overriding some > rendering - but it feels like a bad hack. > > -- > > John Goodsen RADSoft / Better Software Faster > jgood...@radsoft.com Lean/Agile/XP/Scrum Coaching and Training > http://www.radsoft.com Ruby on Rails and Java Solutions > -- John Goodsen RADSoft / Better Software Faster jgood...@radsoft.com Lean/Agile/XP/Scrum Coaching and Training http://www.radsoft.com Ruby on Rails and Java Solutions
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