Parsing Steps

Learn how to parse steps using Gherkin parser class.

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Parsing steps

Steps are what provide the individual action items when defining a Gherkin test. The example below offers a quick overview of what these look like in context:

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Scenario: eat 5 out of 12
Given there are 12 cucumbers
When I eat 5 cucumbers
Then I should have 7 cucumbers

Like with most things we’ve done so far, we will iterate each line we are interested in and check to see if they start with any step keywords. If so, we will parse that line into an ...