How to run selected feature files/scenarios in cypress cucumber and skip others

Question

I tried several commands but nothing seems to work. Either it escapes all or runs none.

@TestFeature
Feature: Test Feature

    Testing sample feature

    Background: Logging in
    @manual
    Scenario: A
        Given
    Scenario Outline: B

I want to run Test Feature and skip the scenarios marked manual. I tried -

npx cypress run --env TAGS=@TestFeature and not @manual --browser chrome

But it doesn't work. Also tried similar combinations, but none work.

Answer 1

You are able to use @tags in Feature Files and get Cypress to run selected tests only. You need to be careful to escape inverted commas. The following worked for me (running tests tagged with @accessibility tag):

package.json

"scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "cypress:open": "cypress open",
    "cypress:run": "cypress run",
    "test:accessibility": "./node_modules/.bin/cypress-tags run -e TAGS=\"@accessibility\"",
    "test": "cypress run --spec \"**/*.feature\"",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },

Then at the command prompt:

cypress-tags run -e TAGS="@accessibility"

Answer 2

As far as I know it isn't currently not possible to run tests with a tag. You could create an issue for this in github ( https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues ) to let them implement it.

As a work around we choose to create smoketests and featuretests. The smoketests are in a seperate directory which enables us to only run those test scenario's in stead of the whole test suite. You can do so by running the tests with this command: npx cypress run --spec /cypress/smoketest/*

Answer 3

You can use the @focus tag. See https://www.npmjs.com/package/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

@focus
Scenario: Opening a search engine page