Add support for multiple Example Tables with tags

[dpakach]

Description

Add support for multiple example table with tags on scenario outlines

This is a PR is addition to #119
Related Issue #117

Example:

Scenario Outline: Test scenario outline
    When I do some thing
     And I use <data> from table
     Then I should get the <result>

     @smokeTest
     Examples:
      | data     | result |
      | simple   | data   |

     Examples:
      | data       |  result |
      | all        | kinds   |
      | of         | data    |

Context

Having this allows us to use tags to run only small set of examples from the table on a big test suite.
for eg. in above example we can use @smokeTest tag filter to run only a basic example of the scenario. but If we want to run all the examples we can basically run it without any tags.

[phil-davis]

LGTM @stukalin @stof @everzet review/comments?

[phil-davis]

ping @stukalin @stof @everzet or anyone review/comments?

[stukalin]

@phil-davis LGTM

[phil-davis]

This looks like the place that shows this is supported in Cucumber-Gherkin
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/blob/master/features/target_specific_scenarios_by_tag.feature
It processes a feature file:

      Feature: some feature
        @a
        Scenario: first scenario
          Given a step

        @b
        Scenario Outline: second scenario - <ID>
          Given a step

          @c
          Examples:
            | ID |
            | X  |
            | Y  |

          @d
          Examples:
            | ID |
            | Z  |

and selects various combinations of the tagged examples tables.
Commit was cucumber/cucumber-js@95c6f29

So this Behat/Gherkin PR is implementing an existing feature of the Cucumber-Gherkin implementation.

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty I don't know who to ping for review (and hopefully approval) of this.
IMO it is "a good thing" (tm) and actually adds to compatibility with Cucumber Gherkin.

[ciaranmcnulty]

Feature sounds correct to me; will review the code when I get a chance

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty any chance to progress this?
What can I do to help?

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty @stof @everzet any chance for someone to review this?

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty @stof @everzet any chance for someone to review this?
Sorry, I don't know what else to do except ping every 2 weeks.
Please let me know if there is something else that I can do to help this progress.

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty @stof @everzet any chance for someone to review this?
Sorry, I don't know what else to do except ping every 2 weeks months.
Please let me know if there is something else that I can do to help this progress.

[phil-davis]

I see some activity in Behat/Behat with release of 3.7.0

@ciaranmcnulty @stof @everzet can anyone progress this? Or tell us that it is not going to be accepted? Or give any feedback please.

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty @stof @everzet pinging again.

We had a situation today where this would be useful - putting different tags on each example.

[phil-davis]

I rebased just now to get fresh CI against current master.

@ciaranmcnulty @stof I see that a PR was merged 2 days ago. Any chance to review this one?

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty @stof is there any chance that this will be accepted?

We would like to be able to use this functionality, and it seems to be part of "Gherkin standard" (if that is a thing!)

[weph]

@phil-davis Afaik @pamil took over maintenance of Behat recently. I have already pointed out this PR to him, but I guess he's still in the middle of getting an overview of all the open tasks.

[phil-davis]

I rebased this just now to get fresh CI. It would be really nice if we could get a release of this, and whatever else is waiting in master, before bumping to require PHP 7.2 minimum. That will help make sure that it can be used with the current Behat/Behat without getting mixed up in which repos are waiting for releases that change PHP versions...

[phil-davis]

@ciaranmcnulty and whoever else is managing this repo.

Is there any chance that this will ever be merged and released?

It would be nice to have. We want to be able to tag Scenario Examples - e.g. see my comment owncloud/ocis-reva#282 (comment)

Please be honest and say if it will never be merged. Then we can close it and stop hoping.

[phil-davis]

@stof I see that you have merged some things last month.

Any chance for this to be looked at?

[stof]

/cc @pamil as you announced you are taking over the maintenance of Behat.

[phil-davis]

@pamil (cc @stof ) friendly ping for 2021. Is there any Behat and Gherkin maintenance any more?
Or is it now unmaintained and "somebody" needs to start the process of forking all the relevant repos of the Behat organisation...?

[ciaranmcnulty]

Thanks @dpakach, sorry it took >1yr!

[dpakach]

Thank you very much @ciaranmcnulty
Finally!!!