Supported syntax

Most of the standard Cucumber/Gherkin syntax is supported by Cukable, including:

• Background sections
• Scenarios and Scenario Outlines with Examples
• Multiple scenarios per feature
• Multi-line table arguments and table diffing
• Multi-line strings
• Tags for running/skipping scenarios and defining drivers (such as @selenium)

Test syntax

FitNesse uses wikitext tables delimited with a pipe | to format the executable statements of a test scenario; these are rendered as HTML tables in a FitNesse wiki page. When a test is run from FitNesse, the results of the test are rendered into the same table, with green- or red-highlighted cells indicating pass/fail status.

Cucumber tests written in a FitNesse wiki page closely resemble the Gherkin syntax that Cucumber understands, with some changes in formatting to accommodate FitNesse.

If this is your .feature file:

Feature: Hello
  Scenario: Hello world
    Given I am on the hello page
    Then I should see "Hello world"

Then here is what your FitNesse wikitext would be:

!| Table: Cuke                        |
| Feature: Hello                      |
|   Scenario: Hello world             |
|     Given I am on the hello page    |
|     Then I should see "Hello world" |

Each row of the FitNesse table contains one step or other directive. Whitespace before and/or after steps is not significant, so you can use it to aid readability if you're into that sort of thing.

Your table must contain exactly one row with Feature: ..., and you must have at least one Scenario: ... or Scenario Outline: ....

Tables

Cucumber supports multiline step arguments in the form of tables; in a .feature file, these might look like:

Feature: Tables
  Scenario: Fill in fields
    Given I am on the contact page
    When I fill in the following:
      | Name | Email                 | Message |
      | Eric | wapcaplet88@gmail.com | Howdy   |

In a FitNesse wiki page, this would translate to:

!| Table: Cuke                                   |
| Feature: Tables                                |
|   Scenario: Fill in fields                     |
|     Given I am on the contact page             |
|     When I fill in the following:              |
|       | Name | Email                 | Message |
|       | Eric | wapcaplet88@gmail.com | Howdy   |

That is, each row in an embedded table begins with an empty cell. The same applies to the "Examples" portion of a Scenario Outline:

| When I look at paint samples |
| Then I should see "<color>"  |
| Examples:                    |
|   | color                    |
|   | Taupe                    |
|   | Vermilion                |
|   | Fuscia                   |

Multi-line strings

To pass a multi-line string to one of your steps, just enter it as you normally would in a .feature file, with triple-double-quotes delimiting the string:

| When I fill in "Message" with: |
|   """                          |
|   So long, and                 |
|   thanks for all the fish!     |
|   """                          |

Tags

You can include Cucumber tags, as long as you only include one tag per row in the table:

| @tag_a                      |
| @tag_b                      |
| Feature: Tagged feature     |
|   @tag_c                    |
|   @tag_d                    |
|   Scenario: Tagged scenario |
|     When I have some tags   |

The inclusion of tags is useful for defining which driver to use (for example the @selenium tag supported by Capybara), as well as for controlling which tests are run via cucumber command-line arguments, described below.

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