Not to mention your "given I'm an active user" is now going to happen
before EVERY scenario. That's ugly. Every scenario isn't necessarily
going to need that information.
This is a really surprising limitation in cucumber functionality, to my
mind.
Abe
On Friday, May 18, 2012 12:22:17 PM UTC-7, Abe Heward wrote:
>
> Thanks for the post.
>
> You're using tags, which, again, is my primary complaint.
>
> But I guess that's the direction I'm going to have to go in, if we're
> going to use Cucumber.
>
> On Friday, May 18, 2012 12:11:03 PM UTC-7, Oscar.Rieken wrote:
>>
>> quick example but you may get the idea you can have a step that accepts a
>> url and hands it to your browser and you can have a hook that always goes
>> to a certain place by default
>>
>> hooks.rb
>> Before do
>> @browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
>> end
>>
>> Before("@main_site") do
>> @browser.goto "www.somesite.com"
>> end
>>
>> some.feature
>>
>> Background: Given I am an active user
>>
>> @main_site
>> Scenario: go log into some site
>> When I try to log in with a valid password
>> Then I should see my dashboard
>>
>> @main_site
>> Scenario: go log into some site
>> When I try to log in with an invalid password
>> Then I should not see my dashboard
>>
>>
>> some_other.feature
>>
>> Given I am on "someother.com"
>> When I try to look do something
>> Then I should be able to
>>
>>
>>
>> or you can do something like pulling urls from a fixture
>> @browser.goto :main_site
>>
>> @browser.goto :other_site
>>
>>
>> and have different steps depending on what page you need to go to
>>
>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Abe Heward <ahew...@rsmart.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I can't imagine I'm the only person to run into this issue, so maybe
>>> someone has an easy answer for me. I'm posting this rant/venting here
>>> because I'd like the perspective of Cucumber users who also use
>>> Watir/Watir-webdriver, like me.
>>>
>>> Cucumber has "Before" and "Background", but these happen either before
>>> ALL scenarios or before EVERY scenario.
>>>
>>> Why this annoying limitation?
>>>
>>> I want an option to have something happen before the first scenario in a
>>> feature.
>>>
>>> Use case:
>>>
>>> I want to test the features on a web page, but I first need to navigate
>>> to that web page. I don't need to navigate to that web page EVERY TIME for
>>> every scenario tested in the feature. And I ALSO don't need to navigate to
>>> that page before every other feature. So, "Background" becomes utterly
>>> worthless to me.
>>>
>>> It seems like the only answer is tagging things, but aside from being
>>> ugly, it's not as useful as it should be--for example, say I want to
>>> declare some variables for a feature that will be used in multiple
>>> scenarios. Suddenly I have to put multiple "Before" clauses in my step
>>> definitions, with various tags associated with each of them.
>>>
>>> Ugly. Annoying.
>>>
>>> Now, admittedly, I'm a total Cucumber n00b, so there's every possibility
>>> that I've missed something important, here.
>>>
>>> Please, someone tell me that I'm just suffering from ignorance and need
>>> to be schooled.
>>>
>>> Please.
>>>
>>> Abe
>>>
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>>
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