Cucumber Ordered Tagged Hooks

Question

I am trying to use an ordered, tagged hook using Java cucumber. For example:

@Before("@quicklink", order = 20)

The compiler doesn't seem to like it. Is it not possible to have an ordered, tagged hook ? Seems like a reasonable combination of functionality. If so, what is the syntax ?

thnx

Answer 1

I have tried the same but in a different way

@Before(value = "@quicklink", order = 20)

But, this may create odd issues if you have another hook method with the same order number for other tests. Like both the methods will run for this scenario.

So I suggest using the tagged expressions if you are using same order like as follows:

For other methods use
@Before(value = "~@quicklink", order = 20) this will make sure this scenario will never run on other methods

and for this scenario alone,

@Before(value = "@quicklink", order = 20)

this will make sure the above method will never run for those.

If you are using 2x version of tagged expressions in your project, you can replace the '~' with a 'not'

This might come handy if you want to replace a method in hooks class in just a specific scenario.

Answer 2

@Before(value = "@quicklink", order = 20)