Re: [Cucumber] Provide predefined steps on a java lib

[aslak hellesoy]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Alexis Mas <vodkadec...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to develop a java lib

I'm assuming you're using Cucumber-JVM with Java.

 

to provide a set of predefined steps for Android development.

You might want to check out my blog post explaining why we decided to remove predefined steps for Rails.

http://aslakhellesoy.com/post/11055981222/the-training-wheels-came-off?5cc9f1c0

That said, we also have Aruba - predefined steps for command line apps.

 

On a normal project the structure will have a feature and steps folder for testing the app, but In this case the steps are the lib itself.

So that means steps should be under src/ folder like a normal source file?

I'm assuming you mean step definitions - not steps. (Steps is what you have in gherkin documents).

If you want to reuse stepdefs across projects you have to compile them and package them into a jar.

Is it possible to tell cucumber, "here you can find the steps" ?

Put the jar with the stepdefs on the classpath and tell cucumber what package to look for stepdefs with the --glue option.

 

Would you recommend to test the lib with the lib itself?

I'd recommend a similar testing strategy to what we're doing in Aruba. In your case - a simple app in the same repo that you test your stepdefs against.

Aslak

For example consider this scenario

Given I launch "SampleActivity"
Then Current activity should be "SampleActivity"

Both steps will be defined on the lib, but also can be used to test the lib itself.

Regards,
Alexis.

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