Question

Folks,

I am having some trouble working with the Afterhook. I have organized my tests in folders like this:

features/Accounts/accounts_api.feature
features/Accounts/step_definition/account_steps.rb

features/labs/create_lab.feature
features/labs/step_definition/labs_steps.rb

Now I have an After hook present in the step definition of the Accounts feature, I want that hook to run after every scenario of the “Accounts” feature, but I do not want it to run after every scenario of the “labs” feature. I tried this:

cucumber --tags @newlabs

the above should run all the scenarios present in the labs feature tagged as newlabs but what I am seeing is that once the scenario tagged as@newlabs runs the @after hook present in the step definition of Accounts starts to run. I am thinking why is this happening, am I using the hook in the wrong way or is my overall understanding of hooks wrong?

Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond, this helps a lot.

Answer 1

Hooks don’t care what step definition script they’re located in and will run for every scenario. Or, more specifically, your after hook will run after every scenario that runs, for every feature, regardless of the tags you pass in to Cucumber.

If you want a little more control over that, check out the Cucumber wiki page on hooks and look in the section called ‘Tagged hooks’.