It depends on the target audience of the feature as written. It seems highly likely that the gherkin you’ve got there was not written with a stakeholder (i.e. somebody not-techie but has a vested interest in the business and the website). BDD is really about the conversation about requirements and expectations – and Gherkin is … Read more
Replace Scenario: with Scenario Outline:
Here is a non-developer tool. We had a similar requirement and I wanted to have a stab at creating a Chrome extension. It’s free and there are no ads. Above all it is cross-platform and requires no technical knowledge to install and run. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tidy-gherkin/nobemmencanophcnicjhfhnjiimegjeo I know this is an old post, but I came across … Read more
Yes, we can write a gherkin step on multiple lines using triple set of double quotes (“””). Gherkin recognizes the triple set of double quotes as the bounding delimiters for the multi-line string and passes it in. Whatever content you write between triple set of double quotes will be passed to your step definition as … Read more
Bah. I can’t believe I didn’t find this earlier. You CAN escape a pipe with the backslash, but the specflow syntax highlighter gets confused by it. Then the data should be | Field | Value | | SomeField | a\|b\|c |
I get “not found in contexts” warnings in my shell Ok, how to link gherkin files execution with steps defined in my own contexts classes (PageObjects, StepObjects, …)? We can read chapter “BDD > Configuration” in Codeception documentation: As we mentioned earlier, steps should be defined inside context classes. By default all the steps are … Read more
You can mark the feature with the tag @ignore: @ignore @web Scenario: Title should be matched When I perform a simple search on ‘Domain’ Then the book list should exactly contain book ‘Domain Driven Design’
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