How to execute only desired BDD scenarios

When doing BDD testing sometimes there is a need to execute only certain scenarios instead of all the scenarios of the feature file.

Tags are a great way to organize/group your Scenarios. One can use squishrunner’s  – -tags option to execute just those BDD secnarios which match a given tag filter.

Setting a tag filter for BDD scenarios:

In the example below @foo and @bar tags are used to tag scenarios.

Feature: Filling of addressbook
As a user I want to fill the addressbook with entries

    @foo
    Scenario: Initial state of created address book
        Given addressbook application is running
        When I create a new addressbook
        Then addressbook should have zero entries

    @bar
    Scenario: State after adding one entry
        Given addressbook application is running
        When I create a new addressbook
        And I add a new person 'John','Doe','john@m.com','500600700' to address book
        Then '1' entries should be present

    @foo @bar
    Scenario: State after adding two entries
        Given addressbook application is running
        When I create a new addressbook
        And I add new persons to address book
        | forename  | surname  | email      | phone  |
        | John      | Smith    | john@m.com| 123123  |
        | Alice     | Thomson  | alice@m.com/ 234234 |
        Then '2' entries should be present

    @bar
    Scenario: Forename and surname is added to table
        Given addressbook application is running
        When I create a new addressbook
        When I add a new person 'Bob','Doe','Bob@m.com','123321231' to address book
        Then previously entered forename and surname shall be at the top

Now, when we want to execute only the scenarios tagged @foo, we can use squishrunner with tags option as shown below:

squishrunner --testsuite C:\Users\suite_BDD_Delte --testcase tst_case7 --tags @foo

Syntax for different use-cases:

– -tags foo
Executes all scenarios or test scripts with the tag foo

– -tags ~foo
Executes all scenarios or test scripts not tagged foo

– -tags foo,bar
Executes all scenarios or test scripts tagged either foo or bar (or both).

– -tags foo – -tags bar
Executes all scenarios or test scripts tagged both foo and bar.

– -tags foo,bar – -tags yoyo
Execute all scenarios or test scripts with the tag yoyo and one (or both) of foo and bar.

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