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Description
Behave is a tool used for Behaviour driven development in Python language style. It uses tests written in a natural language style, backed up by Python code.
Support and updates
- Behave has 2662 stars, 601 forks.
- It has 0 major releases in the past 6 months.
- It has 0 commits and there are 23 open pull requests.
- It has 77 open issues and 679 have been closed.
Code statistics
- Behave has 213 methods.
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License
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Test case code snippets
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For every database add/update operation logs should be added.
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Verify that the API correctly handles slow requests and returns the correct HTTP status code and error message.
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Check if the correct fields are highlighted in case of errors.
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Provide text instructions at the beginning of a form or set of fields that describe the necessary input.
Downloads
Behave can be downloaded from it’s GitHub repository - https://github.com/behave/behave
Method index
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- setup_parser_copytree
- setup_parser_copy
- setup_parser_mkdir
- setup_parser4py2to3
- make_index_for
- make_package_index
- path_select_files
- report_testcases
- json_loads
- json_load
- jsonschema_validate
- json_format
- json_formatall
- setup_behave
- prepare
- print_packages
- test_all
- pytest
- select_prefix_for
- select_by_prefix
- rebuild
- linkcheck
- save
- make_excluded
- path_glob
- make_cleanup_config
- setup_path
- require_invoke_minversion
- need_vendor_bundles
- need_vendor_bundle_invoke
- setup_path_for_bundle
- syspath_insert
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- make_row
- step_to_text
- setup_capture_controller
- parse_tags
- make_runtime_context
- raiser
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- step_fails_with_text
- on_assert_failed_print_details
- on_error_print_details
- step_a_new_working_directory
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- step_a_file_named_filename_and_encoding_with
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- step_the_command_returncode_is_nonzero
- step_it_should_pass
- step_it_should_fail
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- step_it_should_fail_with
- step_command_output_should_contain_text
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- step_command_output_should_contain_text_multiple_times
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- step_command_output_should_not_contain_exactly_text
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- step_command_output_should_contain_multiple_times
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- step_command_output_should_contain_not_exactly_with_multiline_text
- step_remove_directory
- step_given_ensure_that_the_directory_exists
- step_given_the_directory_should_not_exist
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- step_the_directory_should_exist
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- step_file_named_filename_exists
- step_file_named_filename_does_not_exist
- step_file_named_filename_should_exist
- step_file_named_filename_should_not_exist
- step_remove_file
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- step_file_should_contain_multiline_text
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- step_I_set_the_environment_variable_to
- step_I_remove_the_environment_variable
- template_substitute
- make_log_record
- make_log_record_output
- step_I_create_logrecords_with_table
- step_I_create_logrecord_with_table
- step_I_define_logrecord_schema_with_table
- step_command_output_should_contain_log_records
- step_command_output_should_not_contain_log_records
- step_command_output_should_contain_log_record
- step_command_output_should_not_contain_log_record
- step_command_output_should_contain_log_records_from_categories
- step_command_output_should_not_contain_log_records_from_categories
- step_file_should_contain_log_records
- step_file_should_not_contain_log_records
- step_use_log_record_format_text
- step_use_log_record_configuration
- step_I_capture_logrecords
- posixpath_normpath
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- realpath_with_context
- read_file_contents
- setup_command_shell_processors4behave
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- step_with_table_data
- step_create_symlink
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- step_command_ouput_should_contain_ansi_sequences
- step_command_ouput_should_not_contain_ansi_sequences
- require_tool
- print_active_tags_summary
- step_async_step_waits_seconds_py34
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- step_given_person_with_name
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- parse_environment_var
- step_background_step_passes
- step_given_i_need_scenario_setup
- setup_python_path
- run_model_with_cmdline
- step_undefined_step_snippets_section_exists
- step_undefined_step_snippet_should_exist_for
- step_undefined_step_snippet_should_not_exist_for
- step_undefined_step_snippets_should_exist_for_table
- step_undefined_step_snippets_should_not_exist_for_table
- step_set_behave_context_parameter_to
- step_behave_context_parameter_exists
- step_behave_context_parameter_not_exists
- step_behave_context_should_have_parameter_named
- step_behave_context_should_not_have_parameter_named
- step_given_behave_has_feature_fileset
- step_when_behave_includes_all_feature_files
- step_when_behave_includes_feature_files_with_pattern
- step_when_behave_excludes_no_feature_files
- step_when_behave_excludes_feature_files_with_pattern
- step_then_feature_files_are_selected_with_text
- step_given_a_behave_model_with_table
- step_when_run_behave_model_with_hint
- step_then_scenarios_are_selected_with_cmdline
- step_given_the_tag_expression
- step_then_tag_expression_selects_elements_with_tags
- step_given_named_model_elements_with_tags
- normalize_tags
- step_given_setup_the_current_values_for_active_tags_with
- step_then_following_active_tags_combinations_are_enabled
- step_unknown_categories_are_ignored_in_active_tags
- step_unknown_categories_are_not_ignored_in_active_tags
- setup_context_with_global_params_test
- reset_steps
- reset_model
- scoped_context_layer
- path_getrootdir
- make_indentation
- select_best_encoding
- setup_api_with_step_decorators
- setup_api_with_matcher_functions
- setup_active_tag_values
- print_active_tags
- patch_scenario_with_autoretry
- run_behave
- print_language_list
- print_language_help
- print_formatters
- setup_step_decorators
- parse_file
- parse_rule
- parse_steps
- parse_step
- make_tag_expression
- parse_tag_expression_v1
- parse_tag_expression_v2
- select_tag_expression_parser
- read_configuration
- load_configuration
- setup_parser
- register_as
- register_formats
- load_formatter_class
- select_formatter_class
- make_formatters
- strip_escapes
- steps_contain
- setup_formatters
- parse_scoped_name
- parse_features
- load_step_modules
- make_undefined_step_snippet
- make_undefined_step_snippets
- print_undefined_step_snippets
- reset_runtime
- parse_bool
- parse_user_define
- register_type
- step_matcher
- posixpath_normalize
- parse
- require_min_python_version
- require_min_behave_version
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