DoFixture:

keywords

• Actions start with a keyword and appear in every second cell.
• A keyword cell can be empty.
• The last keyword is optional.
• A keyword can contain any characters, such as "+"

Special actions

DoFixture has several special actions, which apply to the rest of their row:

• check checks whether the result of the action in the rest of the row matches the value in the last cell of the row. That last cell is colored green, red, etc accordingly.
• reject checks that the action fails, as expected.
• not acts the same as reject.
• ensure checks that the action succeeds.
• show displays the result of the action in the rest of the row by adding an extra cell in the report.
• show dot displays the result of the action in the rest of the row by adding an extra cell in the report. This is shown as a Dot graph.
• note ignores the rest of the row, allowing notes to be included in tables
• comment ignores the rest of the table
• ignored ignores the rest of the table, but colours it as ignored in the report
• abandon storytest to ignore the rest of the storytest (without colouring it as ignored)

Flow Style

To be in "flow", the first table must be a DoFixture (or SequenceFixture). The actions in all following tables are carried out with that fixture. However, as we saw before, an action may provide a different fixture, such as a RowFixture, which will be used with the rest of the table.

More Examples

Lots more examples of using DoFixture and the other flow fixtures are provided in Fit for Developing Software by Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham, Prentice-Hall, 2005. The tables and fixture code for these examples will be made available on the Fit website.

Fixture Code

Let's now look at WritingFixtures for DoFixture tables.

More Technical Issues

SpecialisedIssues

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