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Sabiha
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Using tags with examples/scenario outlines

Hi,

I have several BDD scenarios where I need to use scenario outlines and tags. I am programmatically running the tests and I am passing in the tags that I want to match against.

 

The format of the BDD is as follows:

 

test1 @Smoke @All @Card

Scenario: Test 1

 Given...

 When ...

 Then ...

 

@System1

Examples:

 |Value|

 | a      |

 

@System2 @System3

Examples:

|Value|

|b|

 

For example, I may want to run this scenario if I am running @smoke tests  and sometimes I may want to use the data from examples table @System1, but at other times I may want to use the exampels table for@System2/@System3

 

In my script I am checking for the existence of both @Smoke and @System1 tags, however it does not seem to be detecting the @System1 tag

 

I have tried moving the tags around, but I either get both sets of examples run or neither.  

 

Can this be done? If so, where should I put the tags for them to be picked up? Currently it looks as though it is only detecting the tags specified for the scenario not those for the examples tables

 

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  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    Here's an example, I'm using Tag Expression in Execution Plan to run tags two and three or four

     

    • Sabiha's avatar
      Sabiha
      Occasional Contributor
      2 years ago

      HI, Yes I've checked through all the TestComplete documentation regarding Tags.

       

      The examples shown in the documentation only have Tags on the Examples table. In my example, I have tags for the scenario and the examples table and I want to match tags from both. 

  • Sabiha's avatar
    Sabiha
    Occasional Contributor
    2 years ago

    Is there a way of doing this using scripts? We don't use the Execution plan, everything runs via scripts.

     

    • Sabiha's avatar
      Sabiha
      Occasional Contributor
      2 years ago

      I am essentially using what is described in option 2, but it doesn't seem to picking up the tags for  the examples tables

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    Here's an example,

    Where I'm running Examples @four.

     

    To run Example @three, change the following lines to

        var example = scenario.Examples.Item(0);
    if (example.Tags.Contains("@three")) {
        example.Run();
    }