Support for BPMN diagrams

[RemcoSpil]

Support for BPMN diagrams

[jmezach]

I guess we could do something similar as our existing UML and sequence diagram support by adding a BPMN option and then putting the XML into the code fence. We can then use the suggested library to load the XML and view it on a canvas, which is really similar.

My only real problem with that approach is that you now have a bunch of XML embedded in your feature files, which isn't very readable. Of course that wouldn't matter if your reading it in Augurk, but you'll have to potentially wade through a whole bunch of XML when editing the feature in your editor.

@marktaling Do you have any thoughts on this?

[marktaling]

Including the BPMN wouldn't be hard, but I agree it would make your feature files rather unreadable. I do wonder what the usecase is here. Will it be used in actual feature files, or be uploaded by itself (without any scenarios)?

Most elements in BPMN we can already render with our UML and/or sequence diagrams. So it wouldn't be hard to include BPMN but that would require a custom notation which I am currently not a big fan of.

I am not very familiar with BPMN, are there any other tools out there which see a lot of use? Perhaps we can find a slightly more readable approach?
Alternatively, we could include the XML the same way we embed images, merging it in during upload so you do not have the entire (rather unreadable) xml in your feature during editing.

[RemcoSpil]

Perhaps it is possible to create a new library based on nomnoml that supports BPMN?

The basic principles are the same.
I'll give it a try....

[marktaling]

@RemcoSpil If you succeed, we would be happy to include it.
If not, let us know and we will take a look at including the xml in a non-obtrusive way.