Testing Area/Behat Testing/Characteristics of a good test

How to write a good test

Template

Copy and paste into your text editor and remember to save in the right directory and as a .feature file

Single scenario on a page

 @javascript @core
 Feature: 
  In order to 
  As an
  So I can

 Scenario:
  Given
  And
  When
  And
  Then 

Multiple scenarios on one page.

 @javascript @core 
 Feature: 
  In order to 
  As an
  So I can

 Background:
  Given
  And
  And
  And  

 @core_
 Scenario:
  Given
  And
  When
  And
  Then 

 @core_
 Scenario:
  Given
  And
  When
  And
  Then

Tags

The tags are how we run the tests, to run a group of tests on Jenkins at once we identify the ones to run by the tag.

• Always attach an @javascript tag to the top of the page. This will run all the scenarios on the page, don't tag each scenario with @javasript. One at the top is enough.
• If it's testing a core feature tag it @core, this will be all tests except 3rd party plugins.
• Tags at the top of the page, run all the scenarios on the page.
• Tags on the scenarios just run those scenarios.
• If there are multiple scenarios on the page and they are testing are testing multiple parts of a feature, tag the top of the scenario appropriately.

Feature

Good features clearly explain what you are trying to do. If you are using a bug from Launchpad to write the test, use the title of the bug in the title of the feature.

Feature: Creating a group
 In order to create a group 
 As a student
 So I can become a part of the group and share my work

• The first line of the feature is the title of what you are testing
• In order to do something specific
• As an, who you are logging in as (remember if you are logggin in as a student you first need to have the student account created, use the background for this)
• So I can, tell us what the end game is here. So you can do what?