小黄瓜-在许多情况下（代码接收）包括通用步骤

Question

I'm using gherkin driven by codeception for BDD in my project. I would like to test if user given with a role is able to see menu entry points which are suitable for him.

At this moment I use this scenario:

Scenario: basic menu check
   User "foo" has role "basic_user"
   Given I am logged in as "foo" with password "Test123!"
   Then I should see "Project" menu point
   And I should see "Settings" menu point
   And I should see "Notifications" menu point
   And I should see "Messages" menu point
   And I should see "Logout" menu point
   Then I logout

I would like to reuse 3 steps many times:

   And I should see "Settings" menu point
   And I should see "Notifications" menu point
   And I should see "Messages" menu point

I do not want to copy&paste it every time I create new scenario. Instead I want to write it as... lets say include file (also in gherkin language), and use it in my scenarios:

Scenario: basic menu check
   ...
   Include "common_menu_check"
   ...

Is it possible? How I can do that?

Answer 1

Why couldn't you write a new step?

/**
 *
 * @Then /^I should see the common menu points$/
 */
public function iShouldSeeTheCommonMenuPoints()
{
   // CODE HERE FOR SEEING MENU ITEMS
}

And then use this step in your feature file:

Scenario: basic menu check
    User "foo" has role "basic_user"
Given I am logged in as "foo" with password "Test123!"
Then I should see the common menu points
And I should see "Project" menu point
And I should see "Logout" menu point
Then I logout

Answer 2

In addition to Kyle's answer I'd rather prefer to rewrite scenarios like in your example using table as multiline argument in the following way:

Scenario: basic menu check
   User "foo" has role "basic_user"
   Given I am logged in as "foo" with password "Test123!"
   Then I should see menu points:
   | Settings      |  
   | Notifications |  
   | Messages      |  
   | Logout        |  
   Then I logout

It is less imperative and more human-friendly ("I should see" in every line is too boring) so it would be easier to discuss with customer.

Note that here table used as multiline argument, not as Example. See about table as multiline argument for steps here:

• Codeception: http://codeception.com/docs/07-BDD#Tables
• Cucumber: https://cucumber.io/docs/reference#data-tables
• Behat: http://docs.behat.org/en/v2.5/guides/1.gherkin.html