Is easyb Easy?
You can have as many givens, whens, and thens, with ands linking them within your Scenarios.
easyb supports the following syntax for should and ensure. Remember, you can also check that an exception is thrown by your code using the ensureThrows variant of the ensure closure; like we did in our 3rd scenario.
Here is a list of the should and ensure syntax:
And now finally, the verdict. Is easyb Easy? In my opinion, it was very
What do you think? Give it a try, it is easy.
Update: Jochen Bedersdorfer, commented that it would be interesting to see what happens when a test fails. So, here is what happens:
In my case, I changed the password for the Account. The scenario one was supposed to validate that the user name was "meera" and password was "password". When you run the same:
Buildfile: /Users/meerasubbarao/Development/easyb-samples/build.xml
init:
run.easyb.stores:
[easyb] easyb is preparing to process 1 file(s)
[easyb] Running login service test story (LoginServiceTest.story)
[easyb] FAILURE Scenarios run: 3, Failures: 1, Pending: 0, Time Elapsed: 0.529 sec
[easyb] "the system returns a valid account" -- expected password1 but was password
[easyb] 3 total behaviors run with 1 failure
[easyb] easyb execution FAILED
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
And within the Story.txt file, you will also see the output as such for the scenario which failed:
scenario User enters valid credentials
given user account already exists
when user logins
then the system returns a valid account [FAILURE: expected password1 but was password]
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Comments
Kode Ninja replied on Wed, 2008/09/17 - 7:02am
Meera, if you use the .groovy extension, then your stories should end in 'Story.groovy', not just '.groovy'.
So, your AccountServiceTest.groovy should actually be named AccountServiceTestStory.groovy
Cheers!
Kodeninja
Meera Subbarao replied on Wed, 2008/09/17 - 7:03am
in response to:
Kode Ninja
So, your AccountServiceTest.groovy should actually be named AccountServiceTestStory.groovy
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Thanks so much, I will correct the post reflecting the same.
Meera Subbarao
Jochen Bedersdorfer replied on Wed, 2008/09/17 - 7:13pm
Would have been interesting to see when a test fails.
Apart from that, thank you for the smooth introduction to easyb
Meera Subbarao replied on Wed, 2008/09/17 - 7:28pm
in response to:
Jochen Bedersdorfer
Would have been interesting to see when a test fails.
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Great, idea. Never thought about the same. I will update the post.
Meera Subbarao
David Sills replied on Thu, 2008/09/18 - 11:04am
Meera:
What an interesting post! I wonder how much of this can be actually laid out by the user, perhaps sort of Fit style, to enable more effective Acceptance TDD? Just a thought.
David Sills
Meera Subbarao replied on Thu, 2008/09/18 - 11:12am
in response to:
David Sills
I wonder how much of this can be actually laid out by the user, perhaps sort of Fit style, to enable more effective Acceptance TDD? Just a thought.
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I think most of it can be written by the user, the developer just needs to fill in the code.
Meera Subbarao
Meera Subbarao replied on Thu, 2008/09/18 - 11:19am
in response to:
Jochen Bedersdorfer
Would have been interesting to see when a test fails.
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The article has been updated for a failing scenario as well.
Meera Subbarao
Jochen Bedersdorfer replied on Thu, 2008/09/18 - 11:35am
in response to:
Meera Subbarao
Thank you.
I like the test result. It clearly tells you what was wrong and the description can almost be used directly in a bug tracking system.
Nice
Tushar Joshi replied on Wed, 2008/10/01 - 5:31am
File must end with Story.groovy error
I tried EasyB in NetBeans and it continuously gave me the error that the file must end with Story.groovy
When searched for similar issue in EasyB Users list I came across the issue of folder having spaces in the names. My netbeans project is inside NetBeansProject folder which is by default made in the My Documents folder which has a space. I moved the EasyB project to a folder having no space and it worked.
Just adding here for people who may face the same problem with Netbeans.
with regards
Tushar
Meera Subbarao replied on Wed, 2008/10/01 - 8:45am
in response to:
Tushar Joshi
When searched for similar issue in EasyB Users list I came across the issue of folder having spaces in the names. My netbeans project is inside NetBeansProject folder which is by default made in the My Documents folder which has a space. I moved the EasyB project to a folder having no space and it worked.
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Thanks for sharing, Tushar.
Meera Subbarao
Syed Abu replied on Tue, 2009/04/28 - 10:27am
hey Meera
Thank for doing a good job. In easyb i am getting this erxception
unable to resolve class LoginServiceImpl
Actually i just copied ur code then slightly changed and trying to run it.
and one more thing that i am thinking that the problem is in story fil. The following is my story file code
scenario "User enters valid credentials", {
given "user account already exists",{
loginService = new LoginServiceImpl()
}
when "user logins",{
account = loginService.login("javasyed", "javasyed")
}
then "the system returns a valid account",{
account.getUserid().shouldBe "javasyed"
account.getPassword().shouldBe "javasyed"
}
}
is any problem in referring java classes in stories?
Regards,
Syed.
Ravi Hasija replied on Sat, 2009/11/07 - 11:54am
Meera Subbarao replied on Tue, 2009/11/10 - 6:45pm
in response to:
Ravi Hasija
Ravi,
I don't have the project. Sorry about that.
sridhar chidurala replied on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 11:19pm