Cucumber Scenario: Should be listed in chronological order by date in ASC order

Question

Scenario: Events should be listed in chronological order by event date in ASC order

How do i test this scenario in cucumber? Events has a name and a event_date. Events is shown in a list in the GUI. I want the test to fail when the events is in a unsorted order and the test to pass when the list is sorted by event_date ASC order.

The real problem is how to define the following step

Then /^I should see a list that has the first element "([^\"]*)"$/ do |element| ???????????????????????????????????????????????

end

Answer 1

create your event with like title the current date. Separate by one day. After you can check if the first element is the older event or youngest.