[rspec-users] skip pending

[Jonathan Linowes]

fyi, In the meantime I've written a little helper

def skip_pending(text='')
   puts "SKIP PENDING #{text}"
end

so I can do

And "foo foo bar bar" do
   skip_pending "Implement foo bar"
end


On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Jonathan Linowes wrote:

> The way I've started using story runner is to write the story and  
> scenarios, and then implement each step incrementally. The order  
> that I implement is not necessarily the order its logically  
> written. Lets say I want to get the story working without the  
> authentication, so a Given clause and a Then clause might be  
> pending; but I'd still want the story to run though the rest of the  
> stuff. I tried calling pending("TO DO") in the do end block,but  
> that gave same result. Well, what if we added a new method, like  
> skip_this_because("authentication not implemented yet") ?? :)
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Dan North wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan.
>>
>> The pending method uses an exception to fail fast out of the step,  
>> but the runner knows it's a special case so it treats it  
>> accordingly. That's why pending steps or scenarios are reported  
>> differently from failures in the runner. It would be easy to  
>> reimplement pending using Ruby's throw/catch mechanism which is  
>> separate from the exception mechanism, I just didn't think to do  
>> it at the time. (Plus, the rspec example runner uses exceptions  
>> too so it makes sense for the story runner to do the same.)
>>
>> As for the first pending (or failing) step terminating the  
>> scenario, this is a tricky one. You don't want the scenario to  
>> carry on executing because something has already gone wrong  
>> (either by failing or simply by not being implemented yet), but  
>> there are listeners that want to know what other steps would have  
>> run, for documentation for example.
>>
>> I am thinking of something like this: once a step fails, iterate  
>> over the remaining steps in the scenario, passing them into the  
>> found_step method on any documenters, but not actually executing  
>> the steps. This would strike a balance between actually executing  
>> the steps - which wouldn't make sense - and simply ignoring them,  
>> which makes the documentation look weird.
>>
>> Maybe they could be coloured differently in the (as-yet-unwritten)  
>> html story documenter, so you would have a bunch of green steps,  
>> one red or yellow step (the failing or pending one), and the  
>> remaining unexecuted ones in grey.
>>
>>
>> On 10/1/07, Jonathan Linowes <jonathan at parkerhill.com> wrote:
>> If you add the pending statement before other non-pending ones, it
>> stops at the first pending one. That forces me to implement them in
>> the order specified, a rough example:
>>
>> Then "user was authorized to perform this action"
>>
>> And "action was completed correctly" do
>>         ...
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:
>>
>> > On 9/14/07, Evan David Light < evan at tiggerpalace.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>   I've been using RSpec in anger for perhaps a total of a few days
>> >> and just
>> >> started playing with Story Runner.  Love it.
>> >>
>> >>  I also started working on a patch, which ought to be simple, to
>> >> allow for
>> >> Scenarios without supplied blocks to be treated as pending -- much
>> >> like "it"
>> >> in Spec::DSL::ExampleAPI.
>> >>
>> >>  That said, I noticed something that seemed odd and chatted  
>> with Rein
>> >> Henrichs a little about it on #rspec.  ScenarioRunner#run treats
>> >> "pending"
>> >> scenarios as an error case.  We both believed this to be a little
>> >> odd as we
>> >> both thought that pending would just be a branch and not an
>> >> error.  That
>> >> said, I thought that there may be a reasonable explanation.
>> >>
>> >> Evan Light
>> >> IMs (all): sleight42
>> >> Twitter: elight
>> >> http://evan.tiggerpalace.com
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>> >
>> > Hrm...I added
>> >
>> >     And "this should be pending" do
>> >       pending "need something else"
>> >     end
>> >
>> > to the end of one of my stories and got:
>> >
>> >   And this should be pending
>> > P
>> > 4 scenarios: 3 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 pending
>> >
>> > I agree that it would be nice if story runner treats an empty
>> > Given/When/Then as pending.  But what do you mean it treats  
>> pending as
>> > an error case?
>> >
>> > Pat
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