cucumber

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 13:07:09 UTC 2010


On 03/15/2010 06:14 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
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> Justin,
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> What I'd like to see is a brief overview (maybe even a Code Show&  Tell)
> about Cucumber and how to go about writing a test case. Then maybe
> each of us could write our own test case using the framework to get a
> feel for it. I don't want to commit to moving strictly to Cucumber
> until we've all tried it.
>
> - From what I've seen initially it "seems" neat, but I'm not sure I'd
> like writing a test case in that non-programming language :) but
> then again I don't like most things nowadays so I want others to
> try it as well. I will be ok with what the team decides after we've
> tried it.
>
> At risk of biasing folks, the nosetests have 2 things going for them:
>
> 1) it's python and a lot of us are familiar with it
> 2) they are similar to how the client will interact with candlepin
>     so any problems we hit there, the client will hit as well.


I think the saliant point here is that it is not using a compiled API. 
So.. wether resteasy/jersey/anything else.. the classpath of the tests 
should not include any code from the main classpath.

-- bk



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