cucumber adapter/plugin

[angular]

cucumber adapter/plugin

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[namukang]

I'm currently working on using Angular, Protractor, and Cucumber.js together and have a working example here without an adapter: https://github.com/dskang/angular-cucumber-example

In the example above, I'm using protractor as a library and using cucumber.js to run the tests instead of the protractor runner.

On a side note, I'm having some trouble understanding the role of adapters in WebDriverJS/Protractor and would appreciate if someone could explain. I see adapters doing two things:

1. Wrapping matchers (expect, etc.)
2. Wrapping control flow functions (it, beforeEach, afterEach, etc.)

Wrapping matchers makes sense because they provide a nicer way to using matchers with the promises that the WebDriverJS API returns. For example, writing

expect(el.getText()).toEqual('test');

is nicer than writing

el.getText().then(function(text) {
  expect(text).toEqual('test');
});

However, I'm having trouble understanding the point of wrapping control flow functions as every command in the WebDriverJS API is already automatically wrapped in ControlFlow#execute() so that they are executed in the right order. What purpose does wrapping it, beforeEach, and afterEach serve? I assume doing so avoids some class of bugs regarding code being executed out of order, but I'm having trouble understanding how and when this would occur and would love to see some examples.

[iamdoron]

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[Radek44]

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[eterps]

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[mmiszy]

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[Mellbourn]

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[jkogara]

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[heath]

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[tschoartschi]

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[mrteera]

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[laurelnaiad]

Looking for info on best way to work with something like cucumber and protractor together. Do all these thumbs up indicate interest or that @DSKang's method is working for you?

[heath]

@stu-salsbury Interest

[revington]

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[juliemr]

Done in 88c339f

[awkay]

@juliemr You rock Julie

[awkay]

@yannickcr Thanks a bunch for working it out!

[jbpros]

@juliemr thanks a lot for doing this, @mattwynne and I were going to add Cucumber support tonight and realised it was already in protractor :)

[brianewing]

Thanks @juliemr!