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matiq
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5 years ago

Hook after and before group of tagged scenarios

Hi, I'd like to suggest you adding new kind of hook destined for running before and after group of scenario that can be used also by scenario outlines.   I'm unable to run hooks before and after g...
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aslakhellesoy
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5 years ago

Hi matiq

 

We won't be adding this feature as it would lead to coupling between scenarios. Slow tests are usually an indication that your application is too tightly coupled.

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matiq
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5 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

The hooks would be responsible for set up environment for some groups of autotests and it won't be lead to coupling between scenarios. The autotests aren't slow, but environment configuration takes a lot of time for some of them.

 

From my perspective they can be work similar to hooks "beforeAll" and "afterAll", but new ones will be destined for set up environment for group of autotests.

 

Regards