Is it possible to skip a scenario with Cucumber-JVM at run-time

Question

I want to add a tag @skiponchrome to a scenario, this should skip the scenario when running a Selenium test with the Chrome browser. The reason to-do this is because some scenario's work in some environments and not in others, this might not even be browser testing specific and could be applied in other situation for example OS platforms.

Example hook:

@Before("@skiponchrome") // this works
public void beforeScenario() {
  if(currentBrowser == 'chrome') { // this works
    // Skip scenario code here
  }
}

I know it is possible to define ~@skiponchrome in the cucumber tags to skip the tag, but I would like to skip a tag at run-time. This way I don't have to think about which steps to skip in advance when I starting a test run on a certain environment.

I would like to create a hook that catches the tag and skips the scenario without reporting a fail/error. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I realized that this is a late update to an already answered question, but I want to add one more option directly supported by cucumber-jvm:

@Before //(cucumber one)
public void setup(){
    Assume.assumeTrue(weAreInPreProductionEnvironment);
}

"and the scenario will be marked as ignored (but the test will pass) if weAreInPreProductionEnvironment is false."

You will need to add

import org.junit.Assume;

The major difference with the accepted answer is that JUnit assume failures behave just like pending

Important Because of a bug fix you will need cucumber-jvm release 1.2.5 which as of this writing is the latest. For example, the above will generate a failure instead of a pending in cucumber-java8-1.2.3.jar