Triceratop

Deno's Premiere BDD Testing Framework

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a development methodology, similar to Test-Driven Development, where the testing scenarios are written in plain English, and act as a source of truth for testing and development. Triceratop acts as a parser and a testing framework for BDD, using the Gherkin Language Syntax and Typescript to create feature files and test files.

NOTE: Triceratop is minimally complete, not feature complete at the moment. See below for possible missing features.

Installation

deno install -Afq --unstable https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NicholasACTran/triceratop/master/triceratop.ts

File Structure

When generating and using triceratop CLI, it expects the tests to be in the same directory, in the format:

project
|___features
|   |   test_feature_1.feature
|   |   test_feature_2.feature
|   |   ...
|___steps
|   |   test_feature_1.ts
|   |   test_feature_2.ts
|   |   ...

Where each .feature file in the features folder correlates directly with a .ts file in the steps folder with the same filename. If there aren't feature/steps directories, triceratop will create it on the fly.

Generating Test Code

By running a triceratop CLI command, it would go through each .feature file and generate a .ts file with the same name, containing the functions that encapsulate the steps in the .feature file.

Example:

triceratop generate

Running Tests

By running a triceratop CLI command, it should go through each .feature file (or a specific one) and use the .feature file to search for the specific step functions in the correlated .ts function and run a test using the underlying Deno test framework.

Example:

triceratop test

How to Contribute

We love to get more help implementing improvements and features! Our suggested starting place to investigate is the top-level triceratop.ts file, and following the imports from there. Most of the testing functionality can be found in ./lib/mod.ts, while most of the parsing functionality is found in the ./util folder. See below for some possible things that need to be implemented.

Things That Need to Be Done

• Parsing
  • Implement better error handling
  • Remove dangling commas when creating typescript files
• Testing
  • Create TestDefinitions for functions with parameters
  • Handle global variables
  • Implement flag to test one file at a time
  • Implement stubs/mocks/fakes
• General
  • Implement a more CLI information and options
  • Create top-level JSON file to handle configurations
  • Move steps and features folders under a tests folder
  • Add test coverage