Cucumber+Excel

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Dima

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Oct 25, 2017, 6:09:52 AM10/25/17
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Hello everyone! 
I have question: Is there opportunity to write cucumber's scenarion in an excel file then parsing it to feature file like specflow + excel (http://specflow.org/plus/documentation/SpecFlowPlus-Excel/)?

Marit van Dijk

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Oct 26, 2017, 11:09:28 AM10/26/17
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Hello Dima,


Many reasons why you don't want to do this, including:
* This makes your feature file harder to read
* additional I/O (reading excel) which is expensive; i.e, it will slow down your tests
Please search for "excel" to find several discussions on this topic.

If you *must* use excel (i've heard of the requirement where the business will only read/write excel):
* Write a data driven framework reading from excel using Apache POI, but not using Cucumber

Regards,
Marit

Dima

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Oct 27, 2017, 2:48:33 AM10/27/17
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Thanks for answer Martin. I've understood a situation)
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