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Features

What the plugin adds to your IDE, one area per page. The Core pages cover the language support and the everyday workflow. The Advanced pages cover the features that you add when you need them.

A few words used throughout​

These pages assume you have a spec file open. If some of the words are new, this is all you need:

  • Spec file — a .feature or .specb file: the Gherkin text describing behaviour.
  • Step — one line of a scenario, beginning Given, When, Then, And or But.
  • Step method — the Java method that runs when that step runs. SpecBinder pairs the two by name, worked out from the step's wording.
  • Generated test class — the JUnit test SpecBinder writes from your spec file when the project is built. You do not edit it. You write a class that extends it, and you fill in the step methods.
  • Execution report — a JSON file SpecBinder can write when your tests run, recording what each scenario and step did. Several features here read it, and they say so where they do.