When opening a new Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test case in the Squish IDE, a default feature file will display. Since Squish 6.4.1, you can define your own feature file template to open when creating a new test case.
Customizing Your Feature File
Within the scriptmodules/ directory (located in Squish's application directory), you'll find a test_template.feature file. To create the custom template, first open the file in a text editor of your choice. It appears as follows:
You can then edit the file to adapt it to the needs of your organization. After saving the changes, every newly created BDD test case will open following your template. Here is a sample, custom BDD feature file template:
Template entries will vary from team to team, but some common entries for custom templates include:
- Original author
- Creation date
- Requirement associated with the test case
- Workflow or project the test case belongs to
- A mini-template for user stories
- Internal and external documentation
- Copyright statement and licensing
- Additional information (e.g., a boilerplate footer)
