For the record: this was a thought experiment that I made on the plane home from TXJS last week and was just something I wondered if I could do.
The reference to cucumber is really only a nod to inspiration for the given / when / then syntax, and the emphasis of speccing behavior in plane English.
I've also been fascinated by the idea of writing executable English as implementation logic, and since JS allows object labels to be strings, why not make full descriptive sentences.
I haven't used this for anything useful or practical (it's days old) ... but I'm hoping it will be a neat way to spec and as someone mentioned document the behaviour of my app and to try and try to separate the intent of what I'm writing from the implementation.
The reference to cucumber is really only a nod to inspiration for the given / when / then syntax, and the emphasis of speccing behavior in plane English.
I've also been fascinated by the idea of writing executable English as implementation logic, and since JS allows object labels to be strings, why not make full descriptive sentences.
I haven't used this for anything useful or practical (it's days old) ... but I'm hoping it will be a neat way to spec and as someone mentioned document the behaviour of my app and to try and try to separate the intent of what I'm writing from the implementation.