Tag Expressions

Tag-Expressions v2

cucumber-tag-expressions are now supported and supersedes the old-style tag-expressions (which are deprecating). cucumber-tag-expressions are much more readable and flexible to select tags on command-line.

# -- SIMPLE TAG-EXPRESSION EXAMPLES:
@a and @b
@a or  @b
not @a

# -- MORE TAG-EXPRESSION EXAMPLES:
# HINT: Boolean expressions can be grouped with parenthesis.
@a and not @b
(@a or @b) and not @c

Example:

# -- SELECT-BY-TAG-EXPRESSION (with tag-expressions v2):
# Select all features / scenarios with both "@foo" and "@bar" tags.
$ behave --tags="@foo and @bar" features/

See also

• https://docs.cucumber.io/cucumber/api/#tag-expressions

Tag Matching with Tag-Expressions

The new tag-expressions also support partial string/tag matching with wildcards.

# -- FILE: features/one.feature
Feature: Alice

  @foo.one
  Scenario: Alice.1
    ...

  @foo.two
  Scenario: Alice.2
    ...

  @bar
  Scenario: Alice.3
    ...

The following command-line will select all features / scenarios with tags that start with “@foo.”:

$ behave -f plain --tags="@foo.*" features/one.feature
Feature: Alice

  Scenario: Alice.1
    ...

  Scenario: Alice.2
    ...

# -- HINT: Only Alice.1 and Alice.2 are matched (not: Alice.3).

Hint

• Filename matching wildcards are supported. See fnmatch (Unix style filename matching).
• The tag matching functionality is an extension to cucumber-tag-expressions.