Tagged Hooks In Cucumber

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What Are Tagged Hooks In Cucumber ?

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Cucumber provides hooks that run before and after each scenario that means this is prerequisites for all scenario but what if we have different prerequisites for different scenarios ? For the purpose of its solution cucumber has provided a feature of tagged hooks.

All the tagged hooks are executed before the default hooks.

We can add multiple tags with a single hook.

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For implementing tagged hooks all we need is :

• Add tag with hook in step-definition :  @Before("@RunTag")

• Add tag on scenario in feature file :​

@RunTag

  Scenario: Scenario 1 is included

    Given Run step of scenario 1

 

Let's demonstrate it with an example :

• Step-definition :

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package stepdefinitions;

import io.cucumber.java.After;
import io.cucumber.java.Before;
import io.cucumber.java.en.Given;

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public class TaggedHooksExample {
   
   @Before
   public void beforeScenario() {
       System.out.println("\nThis will run before each scenario");
   }
   
   @Before("@RunTag")
   public void beforeTaggedScenario() {
       System.out.println("This will run before each tagged scenario");
   }
   
   @After("@ExecuteTag")
   public void afterTaggedScenario() {
       System.out.println("This will run after each tagged scenario");
   }
   
   @After
   public void afterScenario() {
       System.out.println("This will run after each scenario\n");
   }
   
   @Given("^Run step of scenario 1$")
   public void run_Scenario_I() throws Throwable {
       System.out.println("Runnig step of Scenario 1");
   }

    @Given("^Run step of scenario 2$")
   public void run_Scenario_II() throws Throwable {
       System.out.println("Runnig step of Scenario 2");

    }

    @Given("^Run step of scenario 3$")
   public void run_Scenario_III() throws Throwable {
       System.out.println("Runnig step of Scenario 3");

    }

    @Given("^Run step of scenario 4$")
   public void run_Scenario_IV() throws Throwable {
       System.out.println("Runnig step of Scenario 4");

    }

}

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• Feature File :

 

Feature: Tagged Hooks Example

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  @RunTag
  Scenario: Scenario 1 is included
    Given Run step of scenario 1
   
  @ExecuteTag
  Scenario: Scenario 2 is included
    Given Run step of scenario 2
    
  @ExecuteTag
  Scenario: Scenario 3 is included
    Given Run step of scenario 3
    
  @RunTag
  Scenario:  Scenario 4 is included
    Given Run step of scenario 4

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• Test Runner Class :

 

package cucumberTest;

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import io.cucumber.junit.Cucumber;

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@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@io.cucumber.junit.CucumberOptions(
       features = "Features/featureTag.feature" 
       ,glue={"stepdefinitions"} 
       )

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public class TestRunnerForTaggedHooks {

}

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Output :

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This will run before each scenario
This will run before each tagged scenario
Runnig step of Scenario 1
This will run after each scenario

This will run before each scenario
Runnig step of Scenario 2
This will run after each tagged scenario
This will run after each scenario

This will run before each scenario
Runnig step of Scenario 3
This will run after each tagged scenario
This will run after each scenario

This will run before each scenario
This will run before each tagged scenario
Runnig step of Scenario 4
This will run after each scenario

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Refer next page Execution Order Of Hooks

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