Cucumber Cookbook

Combining Doc Strings and Scenario Outlines

Now think of a situation where you are passing a Doc String but you have to combine that with a Scenario Outline. How does Cucumber behave in such a situation?

Let's think of a situation where we are specifying the requirements for the content of an e-mail, but the content is based on the role from which the e-mail is sent. So how do we specify such a requirement in a Feature file and how do we write the Step Definitions for it? Let's find out in this recipe.

How to do it…

1. For this recipe, let's consider this Scenario:

   Scenario Outline: E-mail content verification
       Given I have a user account with <Role> rights
       Then I should receive an email with the body:
         """
         Dear user,
    You have been granted <Role> ...