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Rubygem Cucumber 7.1.0

Summary

Rubygem-cucumber 7.1.0 is the latest version of the popular integration BDD test suite for Ruby.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora Linux 36
  • Last updated: 2021-10-18
  • FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Fedora is currently lagging behind on the Ruby cucumber test suite and as a result on new features and bug fixes. Therefore the rubygem-cucumber library stack will be updated to version 7.1.0, ensuring that Fedora has the newest Ruby cucumber test suite available.

Benefit to Fedora

This update will bring Rule and Rule tags, new hooks, and better plugin support into Fedora as well as other improvements like bug fixes and features in the dependencies that are part of the Cucumber project.

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
  • rubygem-cucumber and its dependencies will be updated.
  • Build rubygem-cucumber update and dependencies in sidetag.
  • Rebuild packages that depend on rubygem-cucumber and fix any that begin to fail as a result.
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Alignment with Objectives:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Upon upgrade it should still work for all users. The only exception being the HTML output formatter which is currently not planned on being packaged.


How To Test

Tests that are running under rubygem-cucumber 3 are expected to run under rubygem-cucumber 7 as well.

1. Prepare: To test using DNF, simply run 

 dnf install rubygem-cucumber

2. Running the tests Find a project that uses rubygem-cucumber 7.1.0 test implementation, and in that project run: 

 $ cucumber

3. Checking the results All tests should proceed as they do upstream without crashing.


User Experience

  • New rubygem-cucumber version 7.1.0 available

Dependencies

  • There are several packages, which depend on the rubygem-cucumber test suite as their Build requirement.
  • These need to be updated: (none)
  • Following gems don't support rubygem-cucumber 7.1.0 right now and would be broken by the update: (none)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency Plan
 * Contingency mechanism: None needed. rubygem-cucumber with its dependencies will be built in a side-tag and merged after successful updates.
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? No
  • Blocks product? No


Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

Users can use 'dnf install rubygem-cucumber' to install rubygem-cucumber.

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