continue running cucumber steps after a failure

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Manish picture Manish · Mar 8, 2013 · Viewed 17.8k times · Source

Is there any way to continue executing Cucumber Steps even when one of the steps fails. In my current setup when a step fails , cucumber skips remaining steps....I wonder if there is some way to twick cucumber runner setup..

I could comment out failing steps but its not practical when you dont know which step will fail...If i could continue with remaining step i would know complete set of failing Tests in one shot....rather than going in cycle over cycle...

Environment: Cucumber JVM , R , Java , Ibatis , Spring Framework, Maven

Answer

joshuanapoli picture joshuanapoli · Mar 9, 2013

It is not a good idea to continue executing steps after a step failure because a step failure can leave the World with an invariant violation. A better strategy is to increase the granularity of your scenarios. Instead of writing a single scenario with several "Then" statements, use a list of examples to separately test each postconditions. Sometimes a scenario outline and list of examples can consolidate similar stories. https://docs.cucumber.io/gherkin/reference/#scenario-outline

There is some discussion about adding a feature to tag certain steps to continue after failure. https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/issues/79

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