step-dictionary

step-dictionary is a utility to aid the in the discoverability of cucumber-js step definitions.

It is a lightweight module, consisting of a StepDictionary class that is instantiated with a given set of paths (likely your --require path(s), or your features directory). For example:

var StepDictionary = require('step-dictionary');
var myDict = new StepDictionary('/path/to/my/files');

It exposes three functions:

• myDict.getStepsJson() : returns an object of all step definitons and metadata about them
• myDict.getStepThatMatches(phrase) : Given a phrase, returns the step definition that matches that phrase
• myDict.outputReport(path) : Creates an HTML report of the step definitions found.

Example of the report output and filtering:

Developing with step-dictionary

step-dictionary is written in es6 that is transpiled via Babel. This happens on npm-install, where the compiled code is output to the distribution folder. If making changes, npm run build will re-compile the code. step-dictionary uses travis-ci for linting and unit testing, which performs npm test on all PR's prior to merging with the expectation that they pass.