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Quick one, has anyone come across a library similar to Ruby's cucumber (a human readable DSL for defining use case stories that can be tested against) in the .NET sphere?
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Cucumber is an application that reads Gherkin syntax plain text specification files and runs ruby files to execute those specifications. Specflow is a 'port' of cucumber for . net that also uses Gherkin syntax files but wires them up to . net code.
Gherkin is a language that developers use to define tests in Cucumber. Since this language uses plain English, it's meant to describe use cases for a software system in a way that can be read and understood by almost anyone.
You should also check out SpecFlow, that is an open-source project to do BDD with .NET.
SpecFlow is using the same definition format (Gherkin), like cucumber, but you can write your step definitions in .NET. It basically generates unit-test classes (NUnit, MsTest, xUnit, etc.) from your feature files, so you can use the same unit test execution engine, like you do with the real unit tests. This way it is also easier to integrate the BDD functional tests to the integration build.
In the recent versions SpecFlow has a syntax coloring feature for Visual Studio 2010 and support for Silverlight and Mono/MonoDevelop.
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Sure. It's called Cucumber. There's an example for how to test .NET code in the Cucumber examples directory and documentation on the Cucumber Wiki for both .NET and Mono.
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