Tutorial 5 – Cucumber Tags
What you will Learn :
Importance of cucumber tags
Add 2 tags seperated by ‘or’
Add 2 tags seperated by ‘and’
Use tags to ignore a scenario
Execute all the scenarios
Importance of cucumber tags
We can do some excellent things when we execute our test cases with cucumber. We can tag sanity based test cases, tag smoke test cases, regression test cases etc. We can also do some documentation using tags.
To further understand the tags, let us create a new feature file having 3 scenarios
Save the file
Run this feature file
As expected, the console would show us below error
Copy all the code snippets from the console file
Let us create the corresponding step definition file for the above feature file. Paste the code snippets and import the packages
Let us remove the exceptions and simple method implementations
Save the file.
We will now create ‘tag’ in our feature file for all the 3 scenarios. So we have created 3 tags for the respective test cases or scenarios 
Save the file
We will now create a runner file and add ‘tags’ option as seen below. So, we want to run only ‘smoke’ based test cases.
Note that, although there are 2 feature files in the ‘Features’ package, still we haven’t explicitly mentioned the ‘Tag.feature’ file in the ‘features’ option.
Execute this runner file
Notice below that @smoke scenario got executed. Cucumber automatically scanned both the feature files and it found/executed @smoke tag in Tag.feature file. It did not execute other scenarios
To double check, the console o/p matches with the @smoke tag in feature file
Let us now mention Tag.feature in the ‘feature’ option and run the file
We again get the same o/p
Let us now change the tag to @integration
Save and run, notice below that this time only @integration scenario got executed
Add 2 tags seperated by ‘or’
You can execute 2 tags as well, see below. By using ‘or’ we mean, execute those test cases which are tagged with @integration or @regression
Save and run the file, see below, 2 scenarios got executed
Similarly you can add more tags and execute them
Add 2 tags seperated by ‘and’
Let us separate the tags using ‘and’, see below
Save and run. Nothing gets executed. The reason being there is no scenario represented by above 2 tags
Now, go to the feature file and let us represent second scenario with 2 tags, see below
Save the file
Now let us again run the below file
Notice below that this time the scenario got executed
Use tags to ignore a scenario
Let us say we want to execute all the scenarios except @integration. We can do that using ‘not’ keyword, see below
Save and run, see below. All scenarios except @integration got executed
Execute all the scenarios
You can also tag at the ‘Feature’ level, see below. All the scenarios will inherit this tag
Save the file
Let ususe this tag in runner file, see below
Save an run. Notice below, all scenarios are executed
So this is how we can use tags in our feature files.
Thank you for reading!