First Draft: Meal Feature Story

‹prev | My Chain | next›

Continuing the chain, tonight I add a first draft of the meals feature of EEE Cooks.

Meals are half of the site, the recipes being the other. Meals are effectively the blog portion of the site. They describe, naturally enough, a meal. They support limited markup. The meal may reference zero or more recipes.

Tonight's feature description, written in Cucumber format, details normal blog-like functionality. It lists all meals within a year, a month and navigation between them.

For completion's sake, the entire feature so far:

Feature: Browse Meals

  So that I can find meals made on special occasions
  As a web user
  I want to browse meals by date

  Scenario: Add meal in a given year

    Given a "Even Fried, They Won't Eat It" meal enjoyed in 2009
    When I view the list of meals prepared in 2009
    Then "Even Fried, They Won't Eat It" should be included in the list

    Given a "Even Fried, They Won't Eat It" meal enjoyed in 2009
    And a "Salad. Mmmm." meal enjoyed in 2008
    When I view the list of meals prepared in 2009
    Then I should be able to follow a link to the list of meals in 2008
    And "Salad. Mmmm." should be included in the list

  Scenario: Add meal in a given month

    Given a "No Lycopene Tonight" meal enjoyed in May of 2008
    When I view the list of meals prepared in May of 2008
    Then "No Lycopene Tonight" should be included in the list

    Given a "Even Fried, They Won't Eat It" meal enjoyed in May of 2009
    And a "Salad. Mmmm." meal enjoyed in April of 2009
    When I view the list of meals prepared in May of 2009
    Then I should be able to follow a link to the list of meals in April of 2009
    And "Salad. Mmmm." should be included in the list

  Scenario: Add meal on a specific date

    Given a "Focaccia!" meal enjoyed on March 3, 2009
    When I view the meal
    Then I should see the "Focaccia!" title
    And I should be able to follow a link to the list of meals in March of 2009

Next Steps

I will likely continue describing features. Still outstanding are the recipes, recipe searching, navigation between meals and recipes, and the homepage.

I will likely not describe editing meals and recipes. My wife and I edited the XML directly for years before converting to the web format—editing directly through CouchDB's very relaxing interface is not that different. Perhaps something for my next chain.