rspec users - Apr 2009 - Cucumber: Setting Dependency among scenarios

Hi,
    I am planning to use cucumber-java for my java project for automated
testing. I would like to know if there is any option in cucumber, by
which we can explicitly provide dependency among running scenarios. For
example:

    I have a ValidateProfile.java and a ProfileSignIn.java.

    public class ValidateProfile {
      ...
  public ValidatedProfile validate(String userName, String password) {
    ...
    ...
  }
    }
    public class ProfileSignIn {
      public void doSignIn(ValidatedProfile profile) {
    ...
    ...
  }
    }

    Suppose I have a step definition for ValidateProfile as:
    public class ValidateProfileTest {
      @Given("I have user credential as (.*) and (.*)$")
  public void setCredentials(String userName, String password) {
    // set credentials to members
    ...
  }
  @When("I call Validate Profile")
  public void validateProfile() {
    ...
    ValidatedProfile profile = validateProfile.validate(_userName,
_password);
    // set profile in class member
    ...
  }
  @Then("Profile should validate successfully() {
    // assert contents of Validated Profile
  }
    }

    Now I would like to create a Test case, say ProfileSignInTest, for
ProfileSignIn. As ProfileSignIn requires a ValidatedProfile, I would
like to run ValidateProfileTest prior to that and make use of the
ValidatedProfile as input to ProfileSignInTest.

    Before running a scenario in ProfileSignInTest''s feature(say
profilesignin.feature) , Is there any option to run the features of
ValidateProfileTest(say validateprofile.feature), get its output and
pass the same as input to profilesignin.feature ''s scenario as below:

    validateprofile.feature
    -----------------------
    @getValidatedProfiles
    Given I have a username and password
    When I call Validate Profile
    Then Profile should validate successfully

    profilesignin.feature
    ---------------------
    @profilesignin
    use output as validatedProfile from @getValidatedProfiles
    Given I have the validated profile as validatedProfile
    When I call SignIn
    Then I should get Signed In successfully

    My idea is to make use of hooks as below, and if possible pass the
output of @getValidatedProfiles to the ''Given'' of
@profilesSignin. If
that''s not possible, I can make use of a java framework to store and
retrieve the output, but the priority is to make a scenario dependent on
one or more other scenarios.

    Before(''@profilesignin'') do
      //run the scenario with tag @getValidatedProfiles
    end

    Other than hooks, If there are any other better ways of handling
this, please let me know.

Thanks,
Neema
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Thank you Aslak.

Let me see whether I can make use of Background for implementing the 
dependency issue that I mentioned.

I think implementing hooks in cucumber_java will be useful for us, since 
we can make use of that to get a detailed report with all the required 
information while running the scenarios in cucumber.

I will create a ticket to implement hooks in cucumber_java.

Thanks,
Neema






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Hi Aslak,
           I have created a new ticket in github for implementing hooks 
in cucumber_java. Please find the link:

http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber_java/issues/#issue/2

Thanks,
Neema


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