Question

I want to not run certain cucumber feature if, say, I’m on windows. Google and the cucumber docs seemed to turn up dry so appealing here.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The best way to approach this would likely be using tags.

For example, if you add a tag like @not-windows to a feature you can then customize your cucumber execution to ignore this.

@not-windows
Feature: Your feature that causes a problem
  your scenarios

If you then run your tests with cucumber --tags ~@not-windows it will run all cukes that are not tagged by @not-windows. The ~ is what causes the “not” behavior, you could run ONLY these tags by doing cucumber --tags @not-windows. Using the first cucumber line while in Windows, you can block the problematic features (or individual scenarios) from running but if you’re on another OS and run cucumber normally, these will still be ran.

Reference: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Tags