passing variables to Feature statements

[Joe Fleck]

Hi,

I am new to cucumber and wondered if there is a way to pass a variable to a feature statement or call a method to get the variable needed.

Ex:

Feature: Retrieve state forrn

As a customer

I want to print a form for this state

In the feature statement above I want 'state' to be the variable.  I want this to display in the Feature header output of the test result in Jenkins.

Joe

[Rob Park]

For me, I'm not really sure what you're trying to do yet.

Where would the value for state come from?

What would your scenario look like?

#rob

[Joe Fleck]

Hi Rob,

Thank you for responding.  The state variable could come from a yml file or a global variable in Jenkins.  

We have several customers who we need to run our scripts against.  We use the gem that creates a nice html output with the results.

I want to see which state was executed in the feature statement in Jenkins.

Joe

[Rob Park]

Fixing rule #2

On Monday, May 6, 2013 1:35:18 PM UTC-4, Rob Park wrote:

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Joe Fleck <joefl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am new to cucumber and wondered if there is a way to pass a variable to a feature statement or call a method to get the variable needed.

Ex:

Feature: Retrieve state forrn

As a customer

I want to print a form for this state

In the feature statement above I want 'state' to be the variable.  I want this to display in the Feature header output of the test result in Jenkins.

Joe

For me, I'm not really sure what you're trying to do yet.

Where would the value for state come from?

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Joe Fleck <joefl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Rob,

Thank you for responding.  The state variable could come from a yml file or a global variable in Jenkins.  

We have several customers who we need to run our scripts against.  We use the gem that creates a nice html output with the results.

I want to see which state was executed in the feature statement in Jenkins.

Joe

 

 

What would your scenario look like?

#rob

[Rob Park]

Guess I'm still wondering why that informations isn't coming from the scenario? 

#rob

[Javix]

See how to use DataTable, for example:

Data Tables are handy for specifying a larger piece of data:

Given the following users exist:
  | name  | email           | phone |
  | Aslak | as...@email.com | 123   |
  | Matt  | ma...@email.com  | 234   |
  | Joe   | j...@email.org   | 456   | 

Like that you can catch whatever you want. Or you can put the argument to catch between quotes and get in your step definition:

Scenario: Add two numbers
Given the input "2+2"
When the calculator is run Then the output should be "4" 

Or to use scenario outlines:

Scenario Outline: Withdraw fixed amount
Given I have <Balance> in my account
When I choose to withdraw the fixed amount of <Withdrawal> Then I should receive <Received> cash
And the balance of my account should be <Remaining>

Examples:

            | Balance | Withdrawal | Received | Remaining |

           |  $500    |     $50         |     $50     |     $450      |

More details are here:http://cukes.info/step-definitions.html

Cheers

[Kendall Shaw]

JVM because that's what I am using. This would also apply to Ruby, I think.

My impression from other comments on the list is that, people really
want users to run cucumber as a standalone test with static text
features. They want cucumber to be the center of your universe. To get
around that for your practical problem, I would generate the feature at
runtime and replace the state variable.

Kendall

[aslak hellesoy]

You can use environment variables: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Environment-Variables

And you can write information to the report with `puts` in your hooks/stepdefs.

puts("Hello") or self.puts("Hello") goes to the report.

Kernel.puts("Hello") goes to STDOUT.

HTH

Aslak

 

Joe

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[Matt Wynne]

On 8 May 2013, at 14:55, Joe Fleck <joefl...@gmail.com> wrote:

I want all of the scripts to run through every state we have not just a few of them.

Why? What would be the extra risk if you only ran them for one state? That would help me to understand your context much better.

cheers,

Matt

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[Kendall Shaw]

On 5/7/2013 7:26 AM, aslak hellesoy wrote:

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Joe Fleck <joefl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ex:

Feature: Retrieve state forrn

As a customer

I want to print a form for this state

In the feature statement above I want 'state' to be the variable.  I want this to display in the Feature header output of the test result in Jenkins.

You can use environment variables: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Environment-Variables

And you can write information to the report with `puts` in your hooks/stepdefs.

puts("Hello") or self.puts("Hello") goes to the report.

Kernel.puts("Hello") goes to STDOUT.

I thought the original question was about replacing text in the Feature header output in the report, not the output of a step definition.

Kendall

[Kendall Shaw]

On 5/8/2013 6:55 AM, Joe Fleck wrote:
> Kendall, are you saying to use JVM? Can you provide me with an with a
> site to reference?

No. Because the list rules ask to prefix the message, I prefixed the
message with the cucumber variant that I am using. If you wanted to, for
whatever reason, you could look for cucumber-jvm.

Kendall