Behave Cucumber Matcher

Behave step matcher for Cucumber Expressions.

Installation

behave-cucumber-matcher is available via PyPI:

pip install behave-cucumber-matcher

Usage

Import and specify the matcher inside environment.py of your features directory.

from behave.matchers import use_step_matcher
from behave_cucumber_matcher import CUCUMBER_EXPRESSIONS_MATCHER

# Specify to use the Cucumber Expressions step matcher
use_step_matcher(CUCUMBER_EXPRESSIONS_MATCHER)

Create a scenario inside color.feature of your features directory:

Feature: Color selection

  Rule: User can select a profile color

    Scenario: User selects a valid color
      Given I am on the profile settings page
      When I select the theme colour "red"
      Then the profile colour should be "red"

Create step definitions inside color.py of your features/steps directory:

from behave import given, then, when
from behave_cucumber_matcher import parameter_registry
from cucumber_expressions.parameter_type import ParameterType

# Define the parameter type
color = ParameterType(
    name="color",
    regexp="red|blue|yellow",
    type=str,
)

# Pass the parameter type to the registry instance
parameter_registry.define_parameter_type(color)

@given("I am on the profile customisation/settings page")
def step_given(context):
    assert True

# Reference the parameter type in the step definition pattern
@when('I select the theme colo(u)r "{color}"')
def step_when(context, selected_color):
    assert selected_color
    context.selected_color = selected_color

@then('the profile colo(u)r should be "{color}"')
def step_then(context, displayed_color):
    assert displayed_color
    assert context.selected_color == displayed_color

The necessary files are now in place to execute your gherkin scenario.

repository/
  └── features/
      ├── steps/
      │   └── color.py
      ├── environment.py
      └── color.feature

Finally, execute Behave. The scenario will run with the step definitions using the Cucumber Expressions parameter type.

$ behave
Feature: Color selection # features/color.feature:1
  Rule: User can select a profile color
  Scenario: User selects a valid color      # features/color.feature:5
    Given I am on the profile settings page # features/steps/color.py:20 0.000s
    When I select the theme colour "red"    # features/steps/color.py:26 0.000s
    Then the profile colour should be "red" # features/steps/color.py:32 0.000s

1 feature passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
1 scenario passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
3 steps passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 undefined
Took 0m0.001s

For detailed usage of behave, see the official documentation.

Acknowledgements

Based on the Behave step matcher base class and built on the architecture of cuke4behave by Dev Kumar Gupta, with extended type hints, a fix for detecting patterns without arguments, a default parameter type registry, additional documentation for arguments and return types, direct import of the matcher at package level rather than via its module, backwards compatibility with Cucumber Expressions missing parameter type defaults, and a global parameter type registry.

License

behave-cucumber-matcher is licensed under the MIT License