Step Reuse

[benjamine]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like the current implementation is not compatible with one of the greatest features when using gherkin: Step defintion reuse!

That means, I want to define steps (ie. methods) that are mapped to gherkin lines based on a regular expression. Maybe kyuri is not that far from that, with something like this (modified from the README example):

vows.describe('Addition').addBatch({
  "Add two numbers": {
    "GIVEN I have entered 50 into the calculator": {
          topic: function () {
            Given('I have entered 50 into the calculator');
          },
            "AND I have entered 70 into the calculator": {
              topic: function () {
                Given('I have entered 70 into the calculator');
              },
                "WHEN I press add": {
                  topic: function () {
                   When('I press add');
                  },
                    "THEN the result should be 120 on the screen": function () {
                      Then('the result should be 120 on the screen);
                    },
                }
            }
        }
  }
}).export(module);

then on runtime, those methods could use regex to call the appropiate step method defined somewhere else. Given, When, and Then methods could be implemented easily. It could be just a flag for kyuri to generate tests like this.

[benjamine]

Sorry for the delay, I tried what you said on the google.com search homepage textbox:

• Keyboard es-ar (spanish argentina), ALT+(key at right of zero) = textbox loose focus and no backslash appears
• Keyboard any, ALT+92 = backslash appears, OK
• Keyboard en-US, backslash key = backslash appears, OK

I tried debugging a little and I have screenshot I think that could help, here it is:

http://i39.tinypic.com/b8spqb.png

the screenshot is at the moment I pressed backslash (alt+keyatrightofzero) in the twitter.com search textbox, noticed that for some reason exitInsertMode is being called on keydown)