Allow Scenario reuse

I would like to reuse step definitions grouped to a scenario. This is particularly useful, if TDD strategy is used for incremental tests development along a happy path. In doing so, the scenarios follow the pattern below:

Feature HappyPath
Scenario X
  Given A
  When B
  Then C

Scenaro X+1
  Given A
    And B
  When C
  Then D

Scenaro X+2
  Given A
    And B
    And C
  When D
  Then E

and so on. I would like to reuse the information already stated in the previous scenario. In order to do so, we can rewrite the previous feature HappyPath in the following way:

Feature HappyPath
Scenario X
  Given A
  When B
  Then C

Scenario X+1
  Given "Scenario X"
  When "Scenario X" 
    And C
  Then D

Scenario X+2
  Given "Scenario X+1"
  When "Scenario X+1"
    And D 
  Then E

The meaning of Given “Scenario X” is to execute all steps from Scenario X annotated with Given, When “Scenario X” will execute all When steps from the Scenario X and Then “Scenario X” is responsible for running all Then steps from the scenario.

This addition will allow getting a much higher reuse of Gherkin definitions and steps from the glue classes. In particular, fosters the reuse of parameters used in steps and reduces duplication.

[mattwynne]

This is relevant: http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/cucumber-waves-goodbye-to-givenscenario.html

[lock[bot]]

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.