Step advanced usecases

CHANGES.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Unreleased
 - ``parsers.re`` now does a `fullmatch <https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.fullmatch>`_ instead of a partial match. This is to make it work just like the other parsers, since they don't ignore non-matching characters at the end of the string. `#539 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-bdd/pull/539>`_
 - Require pytest>=6.2 `#534 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-bdd/pull/534>`_
 - Using modern way to specify hook options to avoid deprecation warnings with pytest >=7.2.
+- Add generic ``step`` decorator that will be used for all kind of steps `#548 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-bdd/pull/548>`_
+- Add ``stacklevel`` param to ``given``, ``when``, ``then``, ``step`` decorators. This allows for programmatic step generation `#548 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-bdd/pull/548>`_
 
 6.0.1
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README.rst

@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@ Install pytest-bdd
     pip install pytest-bdd
 
 
-The minimum required version of pytest is 4.3.
-
-
 Example
 -------
 
@@ -870,6 +867,143 @@ You can learn more about `functools.partial <https://docs.python.org/3/library/f
 in the Python docs.
 
 
+Programmatic step generation
+----------------------------
+Sometimes you have step definitions that would be much easier to automate rather than writing manually over and over again.
+This is common, for example, when using libraries like `pytest-factoryboy <https://pytest-factoryboy.readthedocs.io/>`_ that automatically creates fixtures.
+Writing step definitions for every model can become a tedious task.
+
+For this reason, pytest-bdd provides a way to generate step definitions automatically.
+
+The trick is to pass the ``stacklevel`` parameter to the ``given``, ``when``, ``then``, ``step`` decorators. This will instruct them to inject the step fixtures in the appropriate module, rather than just injecting them in the caller frame.
+
+Let's look at a concrete example; let's say you have a class ``Wallet`` that has some amount for each currency:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # contents of wallet.py
+
+    import dataclass
+
+    @dataclass
+    class Wallet:
+        verified: bool
+
+        amount_eur: int
+        amount_usd: int
+        amount_gbp: int
+        amount_jpy: int
+
+
+You can use pytest-factoryboy to automatically create model fixtures for this class:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # contents of wallet_factory.py
+
+    from wallet import Wallet
+
+    import factory
+    from pytest_factoryboy import register
+
+    class WalletFactory(factory.Factory):
+        class Meta:
+            model = Wallet
+
+        amount_eur = 0
+        amount_usd = 0
+        amount_gbp = 0
+        amount_jpy = 0
+
+    register(Wallet)  # creates the "wallet" fixture
+    register(Wallet, "second_wallet")  # creates the "second_wallet" fixture
+
+
+Now we can define a function ``generate_wallet_steps(...)`` that creates the steps for any wallet fixture (in our case, it will be ``wallet`` and ``second_wallet``):
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # contents of wallet_steps.py
+
+    import re
+    from dataclasses import fields
+
+    import factory
+    import pytest
+    from pytest_bdd import given, when, then, scenarios, parsers
+
+
+    def generate_wallet_steps(model_name="wallet", stacklevel=1):
+        stacklevel += 1
+
+        human_name = model_name.replace("_", " ")  # "second_wallet" -> "second wallet"
+
+        @given(f"I have a {human_name}", target_fixture=model_name, stacklevel=stacklevel)
+        def _(request):
+            return request.getfixturevalue(model_name)
+
+        # Generate steps for currency fields:
+        for field in fields(Wallet):
+            match = re.fullmatch(r"amount_(?P<currency>[a-z]{3})", field.name)
+            if not match:
+                continue
+            currency = match["currency"]
+
+            @given(
+                parsers.parse(f"I have {{value:d}} {currency.upper()} in my {human_name}"),
+                target_fixture=f"{model_name}__amount_{currency}",
+                stacklevel=stacklevel,
+            )
+            def _(value: int) -> int:
+                return value
+
+            @then(
+                parsers.parse(f"I should have {{value:d}} {currency.upper()} in my {human_name}"),
+                stacklevel=stacklevel,
+            )
+            def _(value: int, _currency=currency, _model_name=model_name) -> None:
+                wallet = request.getfixturevalue(_model_name)
+                assert getattr(wallet, f"amount_{_currency}") == value
+
+    # Inject the steps into the current module
+    generate_wallet_steps("wallet")
+    generate_wallet_steps("second_wallet")
+
+
+This last file, ``wallet_steps.py``, now contains all the step definitions for our "wallet" and "second_wallet" fixtures.
+
+We can now define a scenario like this:
+
+.. code-block:: gherkin
+
+    # contents of wallet.feature
+    Feature: A feature
+
+        Scenario: Wallet EUR amount stays constant
+            Given I have 10 EUR in my wallet
+            And I have a wallet
+            Then I should have 10 EUR in my wallet
+
+        Scenario: Second wallet JPY amount stays constant
+            Given I have 100 JPY in my second wallet
+            And I have a second wallet
+            Then I should have 100 JPY in my second wallet
+
+
+and finally a test file that puts it all together and run the scenarios:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # contents of test_wallet.py
+
+    from pytest_factoryboy import scenarios
+
+    from wallet_factory import *  # import the registered fixtures "wallet" and "second_wallet"
+    from wallet_steps import *  # import all the step definitions into this test file
+
+    scenarios("wallet.feature")
+
+
 Hooks
 -----
 

docs/conf.py

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 import os
 import sys
+from importlib import metadata
 
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(".."))
 
@@ -51,9 +52,9 @@
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 # The short X.Y version.
-version = pytest_bdd.__version__
+version = metadata.version("pytest-factoryboy")
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = pytest_bdd.__version__
+release = version
 
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