Scenario metadata provides information to help manage a scenario.The meta-data are collected as part of the BDD parsing.
Meta-data
Scenario metadata provides information to help categorize and manage scenarios. The meta-data are collected as part of the BDD parsing and made available for different uses, e.g. grouping scenario, setting data-provider. It can be used for scenario selection by providing meta-data filter.
There are predefined meta-key available to use which are listed in here. In addition to predefined meta-key, you can have your custom meta-key to categorize scenarios as per AUT. You can choose whatever names are most appropriate for the information they are trying to convey.
@description:Data driven test that uses csv file to provide data
@group1 @group2
@author: Chirag Jayswal
Meta-value can string, number, boolean or list.
@TestID:12345
@enabled:true
@channel:['web','mobile']
Meta data can be provided with following elements:
- Feature
- Scenario
- Scenario Outline
- Examples
Meta data provided to feature will be inherited by each scenario or scenario outline.