Reuse of background between multiple feature files

[sunita shaw]

I have multiple feature files that reuse the same background which is actually a data setup. How do I reuse this background between multiple feature files so that if anything ever changes with data I have just one place to change?

Background: 

Given I am logged in as active user 'Bob' with roles: [Administrators] and accounting event groups: [Financial Analysts]

And below data exists in the database:

| Station | Accounting Event group | Agency Administrator |

| Gherkin Testing Station | Financial Analyst       | Gherkin Testing Administrator    | 

And the Offender Trust Account exists:

|  Name         | Description   | Account Type | Account Category | Trust Category |

| Offender Spending   | Offender Trust Account | Liability | Funds to pay out | Spending       |

| Offender Retention | Offender Retention for release | Liability | | |

And the Cash Drawer Account exists:

| Name | Decsription | Account Type | Acocunt Category |  

| Cash Drawer Account | Drawer for receiving and releasing individuals' funds | Asset       | Cash on hand    | 

[Sam Holder]

The simplest way would be to create a single step and just call that. I would have something like

Background:

   Given I have done the common setup

Then do all of the stuff in your original background either in that step or by calling the other steps individually.

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[Umair Chagani]

Since this is a common setup, I would put this in a hook and tag the scenarios/features that need it.  That way you don't need to litter your feature files with data that everyone already knows.  

[dinesh sharma]

I used the same approach of using a hook and tagging the other feature files with that. The issue i faced is it is not picking the feature files in a ordered way.it is behaving in a unstructured manner.

[Ladislav Varga]

Hello,

We are sharing not only specflow steps between solution but Hooks too. It is helping new solution to run as soon as possible. 

You can use ordering in Hooks.

Example:

[BeforeScenario(Order = HookAttribute.DefaultOrder)] 

(10000) in this situation

Dne čtvrtek 24. srpna 2017 8:50:29 UTC+2 dinesh sharma napsal(a):