Hi all, I'm looking to introduce BDD to our monorepo, and wonder how much work it will be to use

behave

for testing BDDs. I would just need to invoke

behave

instead of

pytest

and maybe tweak some args here and there.

@powerful-umbrella-75231 has a use case of this he might be willing to share a bit of.. 😉 ?

Hi! I don’t know much about behave. Is it more-or-less a drop-in replacement for pytest?

No, it’s a different way of running tests, where you have Gherkin (cucumber) test descriptions along with test implementations for the steps. https://cucumber.io/

There is also

pytest-bdd

and it works ok-ish for most cases, but their cucumber implementation is a custom one, not the official library, and there are rough edges when it comes to dealing with e.g. multi-line test cases and embedded data tables

I think likely the cleanest approach is to create a new target type like

python_behave_test

and

python_behave_tests

. That way there's no ambiguity with pants trying to run its Pytest implementation on those files