Behat-like usage

[lud]

Hello,

In the PHP world (like it or not) there is Behat. With that tool, you define feature files and Feature context, but those are independant.

It means that in a feature file you can use "givens" and "thens" from any context.

With cabbage, you to define a feature file on top of your context. Is it on purpoe ? What would you think about implementing feature-independant contexts ?

[revati]

Hello, I am from PHP background as well ;) I have used behat, but it was a few years ago.

I didn't quite catch your point. You can import step implementations from different files.

[lud]

But then you have to create almost empty files just to import context. I was thinking about something more "automatic" for the user.

But at least this is enough for what I need, thank you, I missed it in the docs !

[revati]

If I understand you correctly, there are the following parts in behat:

• context - where one defines all context related steps
• feature - where one defines in what context it is and what *.feature file to use

feature can load steps from context and execute scenarios defined in *.feature file?

[lud]

Well IIRC there is no need to define the feature part. You just write feature files and the Given/Then/When are available globally.

Maybe there is an option to restrict the contexts available to a particular feature, but I'm not sure.

[revati]

Global steps definition seems odd. At least how I use bdd. But I see value in defining all steps in context, and then all *.feature files are executed against specified context.

Maybe after 1.0