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Thanks for the great feedback Chris and Nik.<br>
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Once I get the basic test in place, I'll play around with
re-factoring based on these suggested approaches and see which one
brings maximum Cucumber bliss!<br>
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- Jeff<br>
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want to create a browser test (for
Visual Editor) that will repro a
single continuous session where the
user makes multiple edits to the same
page. As I understand it, Cucumber
"Scenarios" each equate to a new user
session, which is not what I want, so
the alternative seems to be to
construct a long, continuous scenario
like the following:<br>
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<div>The second two implementations are
somewhat debated. Some cucumber folks
hate steps calling steps and some love
it. I'm can see merit in both
arguments.<br>
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<div>Nik is a master of this (and I learned from the
CirrusSearch examples) but such things exist in
the VE repo also: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>What I did with VE was to make the tests that
loop like that be runnable both with and without
the REUSE_BROWSER env variable. When running
locally I turn on REUSE_BROWSER, but as you know,
Zelkjo objects to having REUSE_BROWSER in the
production run, and I think those objections are
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<div>So bottom line might be to use a hook that is
aware of the REUSE_BROWSER env var. <br>
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<div> I wouldn't want REUSE_BROWSER on Jenkins. If you
absolutely need to have the something that spans lots of
repeated actions I think it should be one scenario. I use
REUSE_BROWSER in cirrus really just as a speed hack more
than anything else.<br>
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<div>For a scenario that really does need to do lots of
edits over and over again I'd go with a compound step. I
wouldn't make the step have loops, though, as that would
ruin cucumber's error reporting. I abuse that enough as
it is....<br>
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Nik<br>
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