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Exercise 010: Replace Hardcoded Parameters

🔗 Related Smell: 010 - Hardcoded Parameters

Purpose

  • Learn to identify the Hardcoded Parameters smell.
  • Understand how hardcoded parameters are introducing duplication and decreasing flexibility in your code.

Your Task

Within the Customer.feature file there is a When and Then step witn a hardcoded parameter. Find at least one such step definition and implement the correct assertion.

Solution

Hint A
  • You are looking for steps with hardcoded paramters in the business calls.
  • A hardcoded parameter is expressed in the Gherkin expression.
  • Hardcoded paramters can be of any type. In our exercise you neeed to find two strings.
Hint B
  • The relevant step is When the customer Sabine Mustermann is searched and Then the customer Sabine Mustermann can be found.
  • Look in the Customer.feature file how it's used.
  • Are there any similar occurrances?
  • What is you next step?
Step by Step Walkthrough
  • The relevant step is When the customer Sabine Mustermann is searched and Then the customer Sabine Mustermann can be found.
  • We introduce parameters for firstNameand secondName. Implement it like in Given the customer name is ....
  • The step with the expression Then the customer can be found is similar but uses fields instead orf paramters.

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