Dcucumber.options, how to have multiple tags

Question

I am trying run cucumber tests using maven with following command

mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tag @debug1"

This command works fine, however if i try something like following, i get error

mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tag @debug1 @debug2"

Is there a way to pass in multiple tag names with cucumber run-time options?

Answer 1

• To run scenarios with @debug1 and @debug2:

Old version of Cucumber-jvm:

mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags @debug1 --tags @debug2"

Actual version of Cucumber-jvm:

mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags '@debug1 and @debug2'"

• To run scenarios with @debug1 or @debug2:

Old version of Cucumber-jvm:

mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags @debug1,@debug2"

Actual version of Cucumber-jvm:

mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags '@debug1 or @debug2'"

Answer 2

In Cucumber 6, property name has changed. Use:

mvn verify -Dcucumber.filter.tags="@debug1 or @debug2"

Answer 3

For me what was working with surefire plugin:

mvn clean test -D"cucumber.filter.tags=@tag1 or @tag2"

When I tried with this version:

mvn clean test -Dcucumber.filter.tags="not @MyTag"

I got this exception:

io.cucumber.core.exception.CucumberException: Failed to parse 'cucumber.filter.tags' with value '"not @MyTag"'
Caused by: io.cucumber.tagexpressions.TagExpressionException: Tag expression '"not @MyTag"' could not be parsed because of syntax error: expected operator

Answer 4

Little late to the party, but I am using something like:

mvn test -D tags="debug1 and debug2"

I am on Cucumber 2.4.

The @ symbol is optional. You can use a tags Maven property. And you can use boolean logic to hook up multiple tags - official docs.

Reduces the amount of typing little bit.

Answer 5

I using this commandline to run multiple tags

mvn test  -Dcucumber.options="--tags '@tag1 or @tag2' --plugin io.qameta.allure.cucumber4jvm.AllureCucumber4Jvm --plugin rerun:rerun/failed_scenarios.txt"

Cucumber version 4.2.6

Answer 6

In cucumber v5.X, only mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags '@debug1 or @debug2'" is supported and working. mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags '@debug1 and @debug2'" is not working and either scenarios won't get executed

Answer 7

for version 6.10.2 Cucumber and Junit 4.12

 mvn test "-Dcucumber.filter.tags= (@Tag1 or @Tag2) and not @Tag3"

where "or" is equal to "and".... for no reason (thanks Cucumber...)

Answer 8

for cucumber 6 use: mvn clean test -D"cucumber.filter.tags=@smoke or @dev"

for cucumber 4 use: mvn clean test -D"cucumber.options.tags=@smoke or @dev"

Answer 9

mvn clean verify -D tags="tagName"