cucumis

Cucumis is a basic implementation of cucumber's gherkin BDD plain-english testing language in node.js.

It was designed to meet the following criteria:

• Run in node.js (cucumber only supports v8 currently and not the node.js commonjs package system)
• Support asynchronous tests (cucumber only supports a synchronous system currently)

It was built upon the gherkin parser kyuri.

Installation

The easiest way to install cucumis is via the npm package manager:

npm install cucumis

Screencasts

• see cucumis in action with some web browser testing

Writing tests

Tests are written in cucumber's gherkin language.

Create a folder called 'features' under your current directory which contains your .feature files.

For example (addition.feature):

Feature: Addition
	In order to avoid silly mistakes
	As a math idiot
	I want to be able to add up numbers

	Scenario: Add two numbers
		Given I have a calculator
		And I have entered 50 into the calculator
		And I have entered 70 into the calculator
		When I press add
		Then the result should be 120 on the screen

Then run cucumis:

$ cucumis

You'll get the test results and a list of code snippets you'll need to implement to make the tests actually pass:

Feature: Addition
  In order to avoid silly mistakes
  As a math idiot
  I want to be able to add up numbers
  
Scenario: Add two numbers
  Given I have a calculator
  And I have entered 50 into the calculator
  And I have entered 70 into the calculator
  When I press add
  Then the result should be 120 on the screen

1 scenarios (1 passed, 1 undefined)
5 steps (5 undefined)
0m0.005s

You can implement step definitions for undefined steps with these snippets:

var Steps = require('cucumis').Steps;

Steps.Given(/^I have a calculator$/, function (ctx) {
  ctx.pending();
});

Steps.Given(/^I have entered (\d+) into the calculator$/, function (ctx, arg1) {
  ctx.pending();
});

Steps.When(/^I press add$/, function (ctx) {
  ctx.pending();
});

Steps.Then(/^the result should be (\d+) on the screen$/, function (ctx, arg1) {
  ctx.pending();
});

Steps.export(module);

Simply add the code snippets to a .js file (eg. addition.js) in the step_definitions folder beneath the features folder. For example:

var Steps = require('kyuri').Steps;
var assert = require('assert');

var Calculator = function() {
	this._stack = [];
};

Calculator.prototype = {
	enter: function (value) {
		this._stack.push(value);
	},

	add: function() {
		this._stack.push(this._stack.pop() + this._stack.pop());
	},

	subtract: function() {
		this._stack.push(-(this._stack.pop() - this._stack.pop()));
	},

	result: function() {
		return this._stack[this._stack.length - 1];
	},
};

var calc;

Steps.Given(/^I have a calculator$/, function(ctx) {
	calc = new Calculator();
	setTimeout(function() {
		ctx.done();
	}, 10);
});

Steps.Given(/^I have entered (\d+) into the calculator$/, function (ctx, value) {
	calc.enter(parseInt(value));
	ctx.done();
});

Steps.When(/^I press add$/, function (ctx) {
	calc.add();
	ctx.done();
});

Steps.Then(/^the result should be (\d+) on the screen$/, function (ctx, value) {
	assert.equal(calc.result(), parseInt(value));
	ctx.done();
});

Steps.export(module);

Then run cucumis again:

Feature: Addition
  In order to avoid silly mistakes
  As a math idiot
  I want to be able to add up numbers
  
Scenario: Add two numbers
  Given I have a calculator
  And I have entered 50 into the calculator
  And I have entered 70 into the calculator
  When I press add
  Then the result should be 120 on the screen

1 scenarios (1 passed)
5 steps (5 passed)
0m0.017s

You can perform asynchronous tests like:

Steps.Given(/^I have a calculator$/, function(ctx) {
	calc = new Calculator();
	setTimeout(function() {
		ctx.done();
	}, 10);
});

And by default, each step will need to complete in under 2 seconds otherwise a timeout error will be thrown.

contributors

• Eugene Ware
• kyuri
• You?

license

Copyright 2010-2011 Noble Samurai

cucumis is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

cucumis is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with cucumis. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.