Announcing 'Features', a BDD Tool

Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Features is a BDD collaboration tool bringing technical and non-technical people together to work on Scenarios.

The problem? Feature files are hidden away in your VCS. Non-technical people such as testers and BAs are unable to access and collaborate on Scenarios.

The solution: a web interface which is synced with your VCS. Scenarios are easy to browse and view with Gherkin colour highlighting.

Technologies

• React 15.x - Declarative, componentised, and bootstrapped using create-react-app
• Redux - Flux-inspired state management, easy to reason about
• WebSockets - Real time app updates
• React Router v3 - App routing. Looking to move to the new declarative v4 soon
• Semantic UI - Neat, reusable UI components
• Axios - Promise based http client. Works in the browser and node.js (perfect for server side rendering in the future)
• Formsy React - Declarative form building

Server-side

• Python 3.x - Like the language
• Django - Love the web framework
• Django REST Framework - My preferred way of building RESTful web services
• Django Channels - Real time app updates
• JWT - JSON Web Token authentication
• Celery & Redis - Asynchronous task queue for long running background jobs (i.e. Git import)
• Postgresql - Relational data store

Features

• Auto import of feature files from Git (SSH or https)
• View feature files with auto Gherkin colour highlighting
• Multiple project support per user

Screenshots

Auto import

Gherkin highlighting

Github link: https://github.com/ademuk/features