cucumber-expression-extender

Prerequisites | Installation | Manual

Cucumber expression extender is a simple Cucumber's plugin to extend the tags expressions for easier feature files writings.

Why

It helps writing cleaner feature files without complex regular expressions.

Writing something like

Given 21-11-2015 is nice

can be translated by

Given('{dd-mm-yy} is nice '

Instead of:

Given(/^(\d+)\-(\d+)\-(\d+) is nice$/

Prerequisites

In order to use this plugin:

Cucumber must be installed.

Installation

To install the plugin to your project please use:

npm install cucumber-expression-extender

Manual

Once Cucumber expression extender is installed,

you can require it in your project:

require('cucumber-expression-extender');

And that's it,

you can now integrate it in your step definitions:

Given('{dd-mm-yy} is a nice date', 
(dateObject) => {
    console.log('indeed nice date ',
        dateObject.toString());
});

And you can use the new step in feature file

Given 01-02-21 is a nice date

Supported types

expression	what is it	examples
dd-mm-yy	date pattern day(2 digits), month(2 digits), year(2 digits)	19-11-89, 19/11/89
mm-dd-yy	date pattern month(2 digits), day(2 digits), year(2 digits)	11-19-89, 11/19/89
dd-mm-yyyy	date pattern day(2 digits), month(2 digits), year(4 digits)	19-11-1989, 19/11/1989
mm-dd-yyyy	date pattern month(2 digits), day(2 digits), year(4 digits)	11-19-1989, 11/19/1989
non-space	any keyboard letters which are not spaces/tabs/new lines	312!`,.?;
env	value stored in process.env[KEY]	ENV["KEY"] or ENV['KEY']
array	list of values separated by a comma ","	a,b,b,c,!,`
int-array	list of integer values separated by a comma ","	1,2,30,6
base2-array	list of base2 (binary) values separated by a comma ","	1,001,110,101
base8-array	list of base8 (octal) values separated by a comma ","	3,4,57,70
base16-array	list of base16 (hex) values separated by a comma ","	4,5,C,FFF
float-array	list of float values separated by a comma ","	1.0,2.3,4.3589
bool	string value represnting true/false values	true or TRUE or True or false or FALSE or False
bool-array	list of boolean values separated by a comma ","	true,FALSE,False,TRUE,True,false
json	json structrue to later be converted to object ensure you specify a valid JSON data	{"a":1, "b":2, "c":5, "e":"f"}