Ask HN: BDD and Gherkin tests, do they provide value in the real world?

• hitchstory

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  Type-safe YAML integration tests. Tests that write your docs. Tests that rewrite themselves.

  

I like the idea a lot but I felt that the Gherkin language itself was inappropriate for the task for four main reasons:

* Verbosity

* Not type safe

* It doesnt have story abstractions (i.e. you can't flexibly create variations on a story).

* The use of regexes for parsing

I created a YAML based alternative with python that I think has all of the benefits and fixes those 4 problems: https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory

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