Nested steps in backtraces

[technomage]

In current backtraces only the top level step definition is being shown. When a step invokes another step using the When, Then, or Given methods, the invoking steps are being stripped from the backtrace, when they are the more interesting part of the backtrace on many occasions. All step definitions and line numbers should be present in the backtrace.

[mattwynne]

Could you please write a feature for this? It's much more likely to be implemented if we can start with a failing feature.

Just fork cucumber, add a new file called features/nested_steps_in_backtraces.feature and describe the behaviour you want. Then send us a pull request.

[austinthecoder]

This seems like a bug rather than a feature request. See my pull request: cucumber/common#160

[leifg]

What's the status on this, I would really like to see nested steps in my output

[austinthecoder]

I did exactly what @mattwynne requested above and submitted a pull request. @aslakhellesoy closed my pull request and said "I'm closing this since there is no fix attached. Feel free to send a new pull request with a fix."

Seems like the maintainers need to get on the same page.

[mattwynne]

I'm grateful for the pull request with a failing feature, but I'm afraid I personally haven't had time to even consider looking at this. I have a lot of other things to do with my time. Having a feature that describes the outcome we want is the first step, the next step is finding someone with the time to make it pass.

Would anyone like to volunteer? I can provide them with support, but I don't have time to hack on it myself.

[lock]

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