Do With - Table, Bullet List or Number List example

GreenPepper supports the expression of rules in table format, bullet list format or number list format. The following examples are equivalent and will yield the same results when executed.

It is important to note that the table and bullet list examples are not executable, since the import com.greenpepper.samples.application.bank and do with bank rules cannot be specified twice in the same page. Even though it is possible to change between the two methods in the same page, you must keep in mind that the tests are executed in the same system under development. So it is not necessary to re-specify the same rule in the page.

Table

Bullet List

• import
• com.greenpepper.samples.application.bank

• do with bank
• open checking account 12345-67890 under the name of Spongebob _Squarepants
• deposit $100.00 in account 12345-67890
• check that balance of account 12345-67890 is $100.00

Number List

• import
• com.greenpepper.samples.application.bank

1. do with bank
2. open checking account 12345-67890 under the name of Spongebob _Squarepants
3. deposit $100.00 in account 12345-67890
4. check that balance of account 12345-67890 is $100.00

Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL)

GreenPepper has an extension to supports OGNL expressions. Here are some examples, using the Calculator system:

To use this extension, you need to specify the fixture factory as com.greenpepper.extensions.ognl.OgnlSupport and add the greenpepper-extensions-ognl-x.x.jar and ognl-x.x.x.jar to the classpath of the SUT.

Information Tag

Information tags

When a document is executable, GreenPepper will try to interpret all the supported forms of the document body.
This could lead to some issues, if we need to insert information as Tables or Bullet lists, for example.

To avoid undesired interpretation of forms, we can use the Information tags.
This tag will force GreenPepper to skip all forms between the Begin Info and End Info tags.

Here is an example:

• This bullet list
• shouldn't be
• interpreted either

We won't see any coloration of the above table or bullet list after execution of this document.

GreenPepper will restart the interpretation of the document from from this point.

Commented forms

Comment tag

If necessary, we can decide that a test shouldn't be executed. Instead of deleting the test from the document, we can comment it. This will force GreenPepper to skip the test.

The test should be preceded by the tag Comment.

Here are some examples:

Test using the bullet list form.

• Comment
• My bulletlist test to skip

Test using the Table form.

We won't see any coloration of the above table or bullet list after execution of this document.

GreenPepper will restart the interpretation of the document from from this point.

Passing parameter to the fixtures

It's sometimes necessary to pass an argument to a fixture to change it's behavior. The rule to follow for passing these is the following:

• The first cell of the table header is the keyword (Do with, Rule for ....)
• The second cell is the name of the fixture
• then the following cells are managed as followed:
  • Odd cells are ignored
  • Even cells are parameters values.

These rules allows to create some sentence glue between parameters.

Some practice

Change the mode of the calculator should give access to more functions