Question

I have these two tests. They pretty much do the same thing, so I don’t want to write two separate steps that do pretty much the same thing.

Scenario: I delete a question link
  Given   I am on the home page
    When  I "delete" a "question" link
    Then  A "question" link should be "deleted"

Scenario: I delete a account link
  Given   I am on the home page
    When  I "delete" an "account" link
    Then  An "account" link should be "deleted"

If I wanted to write a step that works with I "delete" a "question" link and I "delete" an "account" link, how would I modify the following regex to handle “a” and “an”.

/^I "([^"]*)" a/an?? "([^"]*)" link$/

Answer 1

This should do:

/^I "([^"]*)" an? "([^"]*)" link$/

The question mark denotes that the “n” character can be part of the string but doesn’t have to

If there’s any “value” in the type you could also use:

/^I "([^"]*)" (a|an) "([^"]*)" link$/