Debugging of feature files

[laeubi]

Currently it is possible to place breakpoints in the java code, but that's sometimes a bit to deep into the technical details. There is also the drawback that nearly no context information is available (e.g. one has to guess what step/scenario is currently executing.

Because of this, I have started an approach to make feature-files directly usable in the debugger, the following features are currently supported:

• placing a break-point in scenarios and steps
• if a break point is hit the cucumber-run is suspended and one gets a simple stacktrace of Feature > Scenario > Step
• in the variables section the current parsed parameter values of the current test step are displayed

Here is an image that shows the debugger stopped at a break-point in the date_calculator.feature on line 7

Let me know what you think about that feature, if it is useful for you, what other options/information should be displayed or could be required to see whats going on.

[nitind]

is this using JSR45 in some way?

[laeubi]

Not that I'm aware of it is implemented with the Eclipse Debugger Framework.