Re: Gherkin DSL for testcase description and automation

2011-12-09 Thread Gema Gomez
+1 to brendand for putting it so clearly. I am not very keen on rewriting everything twice, we should be creating test cases that whether manual or automated, are reusable and not need changing unless the behavior of Ubuntu changes. Otherwise, we are shooting ourselves on the foot... we will alway

Re: Gherkin DSL for testcase description and automation

2011-12-09 Thread Руаньяк
Hi all, 2011/12/9 Alex Lourie : > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Brendan Donegan > wrote: >> >> Not sure I buy some of the criticisms of the ISTQB definitions, but it's >> certainly true that Gherkin encodes the tests in such a way as to make >> it possible for tools to parse them, whereas

Re: Gherkin DSL for testcase description and automation

2011-12-09 Thread Alex Lourie
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Brendan Donegan < brendan.done...@canonical.com> wrote: > Not sure I buy some of the criticisms of the ISTQB definitions, but it's > certainly true that Gherkin encodes the tests in such a way as to make > it possible for tools to parse them, whereas perhaps ISTQB

Re: Gherkin DSL for testcase description and automation

2011-12-09 Thread Brendan Donegan
Not sure I buy some of the criticisms of the ISTQB definitions, but it's certainly true that Gherkin encodes the tests in such a way as to make it possible for tools to parse them, whereas perhaps ISTQB definitions don't have that. I do think the language ends up looking slightly weird for manual t

Gherkin DSL for testcase description and automation

2011-12-09 Thread Руаньяк
Hi all, After some hot debate in the mailing list about re-writing and categorizing testcases, I've decided to propose an adoption of another testcase DSL: Gherkin. Current ISTQB definition doesn't seem to be elegant enough to quickly describe the expected behavior of the system. As for me, these

Re: Test Cases categories

2011-12-09 Thread Alex Lourie
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Gema Gomez wrote: > On 08/12/11 21:09, Alex Lourie wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Gema Gomez > > > > wrote: > > > > On 08/12/11 15:06, Alex Lourie wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > Proceeding with

Re: Test Cases categories

2011-12-09 Thread Brendan Donegan
On 08/12/11 21:09, Alex Lourie wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Gema Gomez > > wrote: > > On 08/12/11 15:06, Alex Lourie wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Proceeding with the work we started for test case rewriting, > there's an > > i