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Ahmed-Ali / Cucumberish

Cucumberish is test automation framework for Behaviour Driven Development. It is inspired by the amazing way of writing automated test cases introduced originally by Cucumber using Gherkin language
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Implement using data table when calling a step within a step definition #40

Open cyoungrbh opened 7 years ago

cyoungrbh commented 7 years ago

I'd like to be able to call a step within a step definition, but one that uses a data table. I've seen examples in Cucumber and Ruby, but not for this framework. Something similar to below, possibly?

        self.performStep("I enter this data into the following fields:", in: dataTable(%{
      | userValue | field   | 
      | myName   | input field  |)
Ahmed-Ali commented 7 years ago

We have a function called step (or SStep in Swift) which you can use for that. However, the trick will be to construct the matching string. I would recommend extracting the step implementation into a well formed method signature, and call that method instead. Because writing static strings inside your implementation might add extra confusion anyway.

brentleyjones commented 7 years ago

I think the issue @cyoungrbh is trying to say is there is no way to call step with a data table, since it's not part of the matching string. Seems step needs to take a data table as an optional argument.

cyoungrbh commented 7 years ago

Exactly, thanks Brentley.

brentleyjones commented 7 years ago

@Ahmed-Ali I looked into this as well and I agree with @cyoungrbh, it would be nice to be able to pass an array of arrays just like we get when a step definition is invoked by a scenario.

Ahmed-Ali commented 7 years ago

I will add this into consideration with the upcoming release (not the immediate soon-to-be-released version though). For now I will leave this issue open to avoid overlooking it.

Thanks guys!