JVM - passing a tag does not work

[Javix]

I tried to tag a feature like that:

@hello
Feature: Hello World

  Scenario: Say hello
    Given I have a hello app with "Howdy"
    When I ask it to say hi
    Then it should answer with "Howdy World"

it is just a modified feature took from the examples folder of cucumber-jvm distribution. Then I ran it as explained:

mvn clean test -DtagArg="@hello"

Nevertheless all the features were run. What did I wrong?
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3, Ruby 1.9.3; Cucumber version: (1.2.1)
Thank you.

[Rex Hoffman]

You need to pass the parameter in to your test execution jvm run.

Your tests are probably run in a forked jvm just so they don't include these system parameters.

If you're using the cucumber-junit, then to your surefire plugin you have to add properties, like so:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/system-properties.html

hope that helps, not sure what you expect to honor the argument once it's passed to cucumber-junit during execution, but maybe you've got that in place already.

Rex

[Javix]

Thank you for your help. I knew that. The idea was to be able to pass needed tag in the CLI when running

mvn test

I found another solution - by modifyng the options passed in the cucumber runner class as follows:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)

//runnning features tagged with @person tag
@Cucumber.Options(tags = { "@person" }, format = "pretty")
public class RunCukeTest {

}

If one day I found a way to pass a needed tag from the CLI I'll share it with plaisure.
Thanks again.

[Hristo Georgiev]

Hi Jasvix,

The following works for me and I can pass parameters the way you wanted. I use integration-test phase.

Kind regards,

Hristo

    <properties>
        <tagArg>~@ignore</tagArg>
    </properties>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${exec-maven-plugin.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>Cucumber Command Line Runner</id>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>exec</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <executable>java</executable>
                            <arguments>
                                <argument>-classpath</argument>
                                <!-- automatically creates the classpath using all project dependencies,also adding the project build directory -->
                                <classpath/>
                                <argument>cucumber.cli.Main</argument>
                                <argument>--format</argument>
                                <argument>pretty</argument>
                                <argument>--format</argument>
                                <argument>html:target/cucumber-html-report</argument>
                                <argument>--strict</argument>
                                <argument>--glue</argument>
                                <argument>path.to.your.step.definitions</argument>
                                <argument>features/.</argument>
                                <argument>--tags</argument>
                                <argument>~@ignore</argument>
                                <argument>--tags</argument>
                                <argument>${tagArg}</argument>
                            </arguments>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

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[Javix]

Thanks, Hristo. I'll take a try later. For the moment it works fine like that, especially with Infinitest plugin well integrated in Eclipse.

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