Code completion when writing steps (ctrl+space functionality to find implemented steps)

[szymex]

When editing scenario, just after step type (Given, When ...), pressing ctrl+spacebar shows available step definitions that are implemented.
This would speed up adding new steps, especially when there are a lot of implemented steps.

[amp4045]

Syzmex,

Using cucumber and writing feature files on a daily basis, I completely agree with this. Furthermore, it may allow developers to realize steps that have already been written.

Something we should consider is that steps can be within multiple projects, I would expect only “open” projects within netbeans at the time of writing can be scanned for steps. “Glue-code” is what the cucumber API uses to scan for implementations (you’re allowed to have multiple glue code paths!)

[amp4045]

I’ve thought about this some more, this feature is potentially trivial to add as we’re already scanning for the step definitions. Instead of a post-fix scan, a pre-fix scab may allos a cache step collection. We’d absolutely want to cache these values (for time?) so that it’s not running every time you type something.

Keep in mind, netbeans would only have access to open projects.