08 25 2021 Meeting

Meeting Minutes > 08/25/2021 Meeting

Updates

Plugins Availability

Adam De Fouw showed the group the "Plugins" page on the Cypress webiste. This page shows you all of the community and official plugins available to extend functionality of Cypress.

This could help us with certain custom commmands: Custom Command Plugins

If you see a plugin that you'd like to use in a test specification, let's discuss adding it.

Preprocessors Idea

Cucumber & Gherkin

In an effort to potentially build a bridge between our sub-committee and the general Regulatory & Software Validation Committee, one thought was to look at the Cucumber preprocessor plugin.

https://github.com/TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

The benefit is that Cucumber runs on a Domain-Specific Language called Gherkin.

Gherkin ends up being a very human-readable format to write test specifications, which offers some advantages:

1. Non-programmers could help define future specification stubs for REDCap LTS core tests in for Cypress Framework

2. Regulatory & Software Validation Committee could verify the specification stubs by reading them

3. Would leave programmers to implement small, defined methods

Learn more about Gherkin & Cucumber

Let's re-visit this idea at our next meeting.

Test Specifications Needing Assignment

• Record Locking

Please contact Adam De Fouw ([email protected]) if you are interested in helping to complete these tests.

Progress Reports

- Adam De Fouw -

Began progress on the Design Forms tests.

Asked if there was anyone who would be interested in taking one of the tests that is currently assigned to him:

• Record Locking
• Data Quality

Original Agenda Items

• Progress Reports
• Plugins
• Gherkin / Cucumber potential