BDD Step Reuse

[loridee]

Hi,

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions for reusing 2 BDD steps that differ only in their keyword? 

Given I log in as John Smith

When I log in as John Smith

Would really love this to be either a single step (can I wildcard the Given or When keywords?!) or two steps but one step calls the other:

Given ("I log in as John Smith", function () {

     //  login code here

});

When ("I log in as John Smith", function () {

     // call the Given here, as it already has the necessary code implemented

});

Some BDD libraries also offer a generic 'Step' keyword which matches any step type, but I don't believe TestComplete supports it.

Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated! Trying our best to prevent massive code bloat.

[AlexKaras · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Hm-m-m...

Is there anything that prevents this:

Given ("I log in as John Smith", function () {

     login();

});

When ("I log in as John Smith", function () {

     login();

});

function login() {

  // ...

};

?

[TanyaYatskovska]

Thanks for your help, Alex.

@loridee, is this what you were looking for?

[loridee]

 Thanks Alex,

That solution you proposed is what we are doing already. Yep, it works, so I have accepted as a solution. But it gives us some bloat - instead of two methods, just the Given and When steps, I now have 3 - the Given, the When and the login method. If I have a lot of step reuse that results in a lot of extra methods.

We were just hoping TestComplete BDD had support for one step calling another step, or step binding based on everything but the keywords as some other BDD frameworks do.  

Thanks all!

[AlexKaras]

Hi,

>  instead of two methods, just the Given and When steps, I now have 3

From the coding point of view I see nothing bad to have a common reusable function...

...however:

> as some other BDD frameworks do.

Can you name them? I'm interested to read their documentation and see examples.

[loridee]

Froglogic , according to this blog posting.  See the final section titled 'Use same step definition for different step types'...

https://www.froglogic.com/blog/design-good-bdd-steps/