You should also check out SpecFlow, that is an open-source project to do BDD with .NET. SpecFlow is using the same definition format (Gherkin), like cucumber, but you can write your step definitions in .NET. It basically generates unit-test classes (NUnit, MsTest, xUnit, etc.) from your feature files, so you can use the same unit … Read more
It is not supported by Gherkin, so you have to prefix all lines with #. If you use the SpecFlow Visual Studio extension (v1.9.2) you can simply select the lines and toggle them into comments and back. The default shortcuts are Ctrl+K,C to comment and Ctrl+K,U to uncomment. You can also “workaround” this problem in … Read more
I really found jamuraa’s answer helpful, but going for full xpath gave me a nightmare of a string in my case, so I happily made use of the ability to concatenate find’s in Capybara, allowing me to mix css and xpath selection. Your example would then look like this: find(‘#some_button’).find(:xpath,”.//..”).fill_in “Name:”, :with => name Capybara … Read more
Note that the method for calling steps within steps has changed in recent versions of cucumber, which you’ll see if you get an error like “WARNING: Using ‘Given/When/Then’ in step definitions is deprecated, use ‘step’ to call other steps instead:/path/to/step_definitions/foo_steps.rb:631:in `block in ‘ “. See the cucumber wiki for details. The gist of the change … Read more
RSpec and Cucumber are both testing frameworks. RSpec includes traditional Unit Testing (which means testing a class or part of the application in isolation from the rest of the application. So your model does what your model is supposed to do, the controller does what it is supposed to do, etc). RSpec and Cucumber both … Read more
If you haven’t already, you might want to check out Dan North’s excellent article, What’s in a Story? as a starting point. We have two main uses for Cucumber stories. First, because the story form is very specific it helps focus the product owner’s articulation of the features he wants built. This is the “token … Read more
tl;dr At Pivotal we wrote Cedar because we use and love Rspec on our Ruby projects. Cedar isn’t meant to replace or compete with OCUnit; it’s meant to bring the possibility of BDD-style testing to Objective C, just as Rspec pioneered BDD-style testing in Ruby, but hasn’t eliminated Test::Unit. Choosing one or the other is … Read more