Support external .feature file like Cucumber

[GoogleCodeExporter]

We would like to collaborate on our unit test cases with QA.
That means they would write the Feature/Story files and we (Dev) would code the 
unit tests behind each story.

The only tools that support this are either

Cucmber for Ruby
http://cukes.info/

or Lettuce for Python:
http://lettuce.it/

It would be great if specs allowed to create the specs/features in a separate 
file written in plain English instead of forcing to create a class that extends 
Specifications.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jace...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2010 at 4:10

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi Jacek,

I have a long-term plan for providing this kind of functionality but I'm just 
not ready yet.

However, I can tell you right now that I don't plan to go the Cucumber way 
where text is interpreted and related to some code because I want things to be 
statically type-checked all the time. So, for what I'm planning to do, there 
will still be inheritance from Specification but I just plan to hide that to 
non-technical people.

If you don't mind I'm closing this issue as a defect for now but rest assured 
that I'll come back with something addressing (maybe with a twist) your 
requirements in the future.

Original comment by etorrebo...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2010 at 4:01

• Changed state: WontFix

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Sure, no problem...it just means we'll be writing Python (not a bad thing at 
all) instead of Scala :-)

Original comment by jace...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2010 at 7:56