Without adding a new feature to Cucumber, I'd probably do
Scenario Outline: Religious menus
Given the customer is a "<Religion>"
When they ask for the menu
Then they should be presented with "<Meats>"
Examples:
| Religion | Meats |
| Christian | Pork, Lamb, Veal |
| Jewish | Lamb, Veal |
| Muslim | Lamb, Veal |
| Hindu | Lamb |
and then parse the meat string in the step definition
meat.split(',') etc
On Apr 21, 2009, at 12:39 PM, aslak hellesoy wrote:
Being the author of Cucumber, some of you might be surprised that I
ask this question:
How should I go about to implement a Cucumber feature and step
definition with the following data?
http://gist.github.com/99220 (just look at the first file for now)
Imagine I'm opening a restaurant where customers are asked for
their religion. Based on what they answer, they will be presented
with a tailored menu. (Apologies in advance if I'm ignorant about
what different people it).
In Cucumber, there are several ways to put this table in a feature.
It can be part of a table in a Scenario Outline's Examples section
(http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/scenario-outlines),
or it can be sent to a Step as a multiline argument (http://
wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/multiline-step-arguments).
In either case, I'm not happy about the feature and step
definitions I end up with. The Scenario Outline version has
annoying duplication. I have to duplicate each meat 3 times! This
makes it hard to read and edit. The multiline step argument version
isn't much better. If a menu for a religion is wrong I'll only get
one error, the error won't tell me what's wrong (unless I
explicitly craft my error messages in the step definition) and max
one failure will show (there is only one scenario).
There should be a better way to express this kind of tests. But I'm
not sure how. Is there a smarter way with the current Cucumber? If
not, how would you *like* to express this sort of problem?
Cheers,
Aslak
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