What about background outlines

[iby]

There's a recently asked question on SO about why backgrounds don't work with outlines. It is fairly obvious why they don't, but why shouldn't they? The proposition is to have background outlines similar to scenario outlines, when they are combined, the the scenario examples would overwrite / merge with the background ones.

Background Outline: Eating
  Given there are <start> cucumbers
  When I eat <eat> cucumbers

  Examples:
    | start | eat |
    |  1    |  1  |

Scenario Outline: Eating
  Then I should have <left> cucumbers

  Examples:
    | start | eat | left |
    |  12   |  5  |  7   |
    |  20   |  5  |  15  |

How do you think value of this vs. work required to implement relate to each other? That would definitely make some tests neater, but it feels this would be a pain to implement knowing the code a little bit?

[everzet]

Gherkin is not a programming language. Even though your example is by design overly simplistic, it does hurt my head already in attempt to figure out what it does. I can't even imagine what will it do with someone that never done programming before. So no.

[iby]

Lol, thought so.

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On 12 Sep 2014, at 14:18, Konstantin Kudryashov notifications@github.com wrote:

Gherkin is not a programming language. Even though your example is by design is overly simplistic, it does hurt my head already in attempt to figure out what it does. I can't even imagine what will it do with someone that never done programming before. So no.

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