Fetching tags from a feature file using cucumber

Question

Is there a command line option to list all the tags in your cucumber test suite?

For example, I would want something like: cucumber --show-tags foo.feature

That would give me something like:

@ci @development @regression @wip

The syntax which i have tried was "cucumber -f tag_cloud foo.feature" and its giving me "cannot load tag_cloud(load_error)"

I just wanted to know how to do it exactly.

Do i need to install any api's additionally?? or how it is?

Kindly help me

Answer 1

I believe the --show-tags option was deprecated. Instead, you have to use a custom formatter.

Nat Ritmeyer had a good custom formatter for this task - https://gist.github.com/natritmeyer/2995205.

1) Copy the following into a "list_tags.rb" file in your "features/support" directory:

=begin

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=end


require 'cucumber/formatter/console'
require 'cucumber/formatter/io'

module Cucumber
  module Formatter
    class ListTags
      include Io
      include Console

      def initialize(step_mother, path_or_io, options)
        @io = ensure_io(path_or_io, "list_tags")
        @all_tags = []
      end

      def tag_name(tag_name)
        @all_tags << tag_name
      end

      def after_features(features)
        @all_tags.uniq.sort.each {|tag| @io.puts tag}
      end
    end
  end
end

2) Then run cucumber using:

cucumber -d -f Cucumber::Formatter::ListTags

This does a (dry) run of your features and formats the results using the custom formatter. The results are a list of tags. For example:

@feature1
@feature2
@scenario1
@smoke1
@smoke2