[rspec-users] plans for cucumber

aslak hellesoy
2008-09-23T12:15:10Z

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brandon Keepers <brandon at opensoul.org>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:52 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Let''s make this official. We''re planning to replace
the RSpec Story
>> Runner with Cucumber. The rspec-1.1.5 release will still include the
>> Story Runner (several fixes since the last release). So if
you''re not
>> already using stories and you want to start, start with cucumber
>> (http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber).
>
> This is good news.
>
>>
>> Feel free to respond with questions/concerns (praise is welcome too!).
>> We''re really excited about Cucumber and all the benefits it
brings
>> (see http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2008/9/22/cucumber), and we want
>> to make the transition as easy as we can for the pioneers among you
>> who are already using stories.
>
> This fits into the praise category?
>
> I tried using stories many times, but was never happy with them.  They
> always felt like too much work, too clunky, and not quite complete.
>
> I finally looked into cucumber last week and immediately loved it.  Within
a
> couple hours I had several features written for an existing application. By
> the end of the next day, our whole team was writing cucumber features, and
> enjoying it!  Cucumber seems to have brought back an excitement to testing
> that I haven''t felt for a while (since my first few weeks with
RSpec).
>

Wow - thanks Brandon!

Let me know if you want it removed from here:
http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/wikis/home

Aslak

> As aways, good work!
>
> Brandon
>
>
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