[rspec-users] Where to start after writing feature

[Pat Maddox]

In the future, if you're going to +1 his advice could you please include
it in your email?  I have to go searching for it now.

Pat

"Andrew Premdas" <apremdas at gmail.com> writes:

> +1 to Davids advice
>
> But first I would analyse the feature I've written. Some of the things I'd think about include
>
> 1) The use of the word task - its not very precise
> 2) The assumptions made in my story and whether I'm ready to make these yet
>
>    a) That a task will have a name
>    b) That only English users will be using this page
>    c) That people will now what a CAS link is
>    ...
>
> 3) The brittleness of what I've written - what will change and how will I have to modify what I've done
>
> So my initial scenario might be
>
> When I create a new improvement
> I should see a confirmation
>
> and my second scenario might be
>
> Given there are some improvements
> I should be able to view improvements
>
> Finally have a think about whether this feature is actually important enough to be doing first.
>
> HTH
>
> 2008/12/5 Stephen Veit <srveit at gmail.com>
>
>     I am trying to develop code from the feature on down.
>    
>     So I created a brand new rails app. It has no models yet. I wrote a feature:
>    
>     Feature: Add tasks
>       In order to track website improvements
>       a user
>       wants to add tasks
>    
>       Scenario: User adds task
>         Given task "Display Group Rules" does not exist
>         When I visit "/tasks/new"
>         And I fill in "Name" with "Display Group Rules"
>         And I fill in "Description" with "Displays links to edit each group rule"
>         And I fill in "CAS Link" with "GroupRulesManager/"
>         And I press "Submit"
>         Then I should end up on the Tasks page
>         And I should see "Task successfully added"
>         And the task "Display Group Rules" should exist
>    
>     I then run:
>    
>     rake db:migrate (this creates my development SQLite3 database)
>     rake db:test:prepare (this creates my development SQLite3 database)
>     rake features (outputs the following:)
>    
>     Feature: Add tasks  # features/manage_task.feature
>       In order to track website improvements
>       a user
>       wants to add tasks
>       Scenario: User adds task
>         Given task "Display Group Rules" does not exist
>         When I visit "/tasks/new"
>         And I fill in "Name" with "Display Group Rules"
>         And I fill in "Description" with "Displays links to edit each group rule"
>         And I fill in "CAS Link" with "GroupRulesManager/"
>         And I press "Submit"
>         Then I should end up on the Tasks page
>         And I should see "Task successfully added"
>         And the task "Display Group Rules" should exist
>
>     5 steps skipped
>     4 steps pending
>    
>     You can use these snippets to implement pending steps:
>    
>     Given /^task "Display Group Rules" does not exist$/ do
>     end
>    
>     When /^I visit "\/tasks\/new"$/ do
>     end
>    
>     Then /^I should end up on the Tasks page$/ do
>     end
>    
>     Then /^the task "Display Group Rules" should exist$/ do
>     end
>
>     My question is where to go from here. Do I implement the four pending steps, e.g:
>    
>     Given /^task "(.+)" does not exist$/ do |name|
>       task = Task.find_by_name(name)
>       task.destroy if task
>     end
>    
>     Or do I run:
>    
>      ./script/generate scaffold_resource task name:string description:text cas_link:string
>    
>     and the rake rspec and fix whatever errors show up there?
>    
>     What are your thoughts? TIA
>    
>     --
>     Stephen Veit
>     314-616-9688
>    
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