Any support for tags on Context blocks planned?

[davidwallis3101]

As above really..

I do describe "server intergration tests"

Context 2016

Context 2012

Context 2008

Context Linux

And a lot of my initial pre-reqs and setup are under the describe block.. but Id rather not do multiple describes, but if necessary..

[dlwyatt]

It's something we've talked about, but surprisingly hard to implement. It might not make it into the v4 release, but is something we can look at later on as an enhancement.

[it-praktyk]

I see that in the function Context.ps1 is added the parameter Tag.

But based on the line 129 in the Describe.ps1 I assume that tags are only supported for Describe.

Am I right?

[dlwyatt]

In v4, there's really no difference between the Describe and Context commands; they just alias the same code. However, for the moment, you can only effectively put tags on the outermost block (whether that happens to be called Describe or Context doesn't matter.) That's because we didn't have a good way to figure out which blocks to run when their contents might also have tags (and these blocks / tags can potentially span multiple files). It wasn't important enough to hold up the rest of the code changes, so I just stuck that warning in for now.

[PeterMTaylor]

Hi there,

just wondering is it possible that these tags as @davidwallis3101 mentioned for this issue be useful as a TODO list which a set of several contexts required for one Describe block. Then later run a small summary script to see how many "to do" tests are outstanding for reflection purposes. Thanks.

I had asked the pester group forum for some ideas https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/pester/fwMtDsILe4k

[nohwnd]

@PeterMTaylor You can use -Skipped to mark tests that you are working on. Or just throw "todo" in them to make them fail. You can also write a script that will process the pester result object and pick up the tests that threw the todo message (a simple where might suffice). There is probably not much more that Pester can do for you, without making it a feature just for you :)

[nohwnd]

Implemented in v5.