Thanks for the response. Here is my use case: In my system I need to manage users and have the following stories: - CreateUser.story - ModifyUserProfile.story - DeleteUser.story - ChangeUserPassword.story
ModifyUserProfile, DeleteUser and ChangeUserPassword are all dependent on a user being present, which is created as part of CreateUser. It would nice to be able to have CreateUser be a GivenStory in all three of those stories so that regardless of which one was run (or run first) CreateUser was always executed. But at the same time, it can only be run once. So I'm not sure the meta info would work. This is a relatively simple scenario but it demonstrates the issue. Chris On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Mauro Talevi <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Chris, > > there is no explicit support for conditionality in GivenStories. > > That said, GivenStories can be parametrised by meta (i.e. the meta > properties are passed to the given story) and you could try using some > bespoke meta info to execute or not certain stories, scenario or steps. > > Bear in mind, though, that it's not very transparent and you risk losing a > key benefit of BDD - the communication aspect. > > Alternatively, still using meta, you can opt for a filtering solution, > whereby certain stories are not executed depending on the filter you > specify at runtime. > > Feel free to put forward your usecases and we'll see if they can be better > satisfied and if the case exists for new features. > > Cheers > > > On 06/11/2012 05:48, Chris Geer wrote: > >> We are trying to use GivenStories to ensure prerequisite stories are run >> but are having a few problems. We really have a need to be able to declare >> a story as a given story on multiple stories but only have it run once, >> regardless of how many times it's declared. For example, we have a story >> that create a new user in the system, that if called multiple times causes >> errors, however we have multiple stories that require that user to be >> there. We'd like to be able to declare the createUser.story as a GivenStory >> for multiple other stories but also be able to mark it so that it's >> executed only once, kind of like a singleton story. >> >> Is that possible today? If not, is there a good workaround? I also can't >> find a way to make a scenario/step/story run conditionally. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris >> > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/**manage_email<http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email> > > >
