@Handa, If I understand well the sub scenario need this can be achieved by including that sub scenario part of a standalone story and then making your each scenario that has your sub scenario a prerequest running with a GivenStories pointing to that common story.
We applied this lots of time when exercising a banking system. Say you have the user login story your common thing and then you have: a BPay payment, a Bank Transfer, an International Payment, etc. All these scenarios would gave a GivenStories UserLoginStory, etc @Mauro The user defined keyword attracted my attention quite a lot. I accept that you can describe a business case just using Given/When/Then/And suite. However when the scenario you need to write is a long one (say 30 or more steps) I have to accept that the story starts sounding a bit to fade (say made up). It works but....:) When this post came I was just about to come up with an idea/proposal to bring some spice in our stories and make them sounds more natural. What about including the flexibility of defining "And" synonyms with exactly the same functionality as the actual "And"? So you can say something like this: Given our Payments system supports SWIFT messages When a FX transaction message arrives And the "from" currency is USD And the "to" currency is GBP And the exchange rate is 0.71002 And the transaction date is the next business day And the transaction amount is $200.00 And the payer account no is 1234567890 .... And 30 others "when" steps describing the Foreigner Exchange message Then..... Someone would say (me included) that if I can say "With' and "Having" are synonyms of "And" and rewrite the story like below then it would sound more natural. Given our Payments system supports SWIFT messages When a FX transaction message arrives Having the "from" currency as USD And the "to" currency as GBP With an exchange rate is 0.71002 ...... What do u think? I was thinking to research a bit how difficult that would be. Regards, Julian --- On Mon, 11/2/13, Mauro Talevi <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mauro Talevi <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [jbehave-user] User defined keyword To: [email protected] Received: Monday, 11 February, 2013, 2:36 AM You can request new features on JIRA: http://jbehave.org/issue-tracking.html That said, your features require substantial changes and are more likely to be considered for the 4.x releases. On 10/02/2013 15:13, Handa, Ramneek wrote: I would love to have ability to write a sub scenario which is a part of many scenarios so as to avoid repetition. @Before/@AfterScenario/... – as a coder of my tool I wouldn’t know what the story writer would like to do at teardown and setup. Unfortunately these two are very basic needs for me to use JBehave. Is it not done because its complex given how JBehave is implemented or has it never been the priority? I can write my requirement and file an issue if you think this can be supported soon? Regards From: Mauro Talevi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jbehave-user] User defined keyword You can define "composite steps" from other defined steps: http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/composite-steps.html User-defined keywords are not supported, the only keywords allowed in the scenario steps are "Given/When/Then/And" but the rest of the step language is entire up to you to define. You can also change the existing ones, ie use different values for them, via i18n support. The idea being that Given/When/Then represent generic step types (precondition/event/result) and you should be able to fit comfortably into these types by appropriate use of the step language that follows. There is no setup/teardown in the story syntax, i.e. something executed before and after *each* scenario or story. There is however : - GivenStories ... i.e. one or more stories executed on demand (i.e. on explicit invocation) before scenarios or stories. - @Before/@AfterScenario/Story/Stories ... i.e. annotated steps in code that are executed before each scenario/story/group of stories On 10/02/2013 13:59, Handa, Ramneek wrote: Hi Guys, Is it possible for the story writer to create new higher level steps (which consists of multiple steps)? I am moving from robot framework and it has this feature of user defined keywords that i couldn’t find in jbehave website. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Also, i would like to know if there is a way for story writer to write setup/teardown in gherkin? Regards, Ramneek This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify the sender immediately. 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