How to run a feature file using Pycharm Community

Question

I have installed the behave 1.2.5 and PyCharm Community. When I right click the feature file I do not see an option called Run as feature file.

How do I set the Run configuration

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but maybe other people have this same issue.

You can setup PyCharm Community like this:

Copy Behave Path:

And paste it in 'Script':

Answer 2

As others have stated, PyCharm community edition is not going to be much help when it comes to behave support. You can however create a testAllFeatures.py with roughly this content:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from behave import __main__ as behave_executable
    behave_executable.main(None)

You will get the usual "Run" context menu for this file. Let's call this an executor for now as I don't know if there is any wide-spread term for this. This does the equivalent of executing behave in its directory. You can then play around with tags and a few similar executors (with args!=None parameters, of course) to call up different sets of your scenarios.

An alternative is to create "Run configuration(s)" in PyCharm to call the behave cli. The advantage of the above outlined executor approach is that you can run the executors even when you are not using PyCharm, including a CI environment.