ANDing and ORing Tags in Behat

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Most of the time, changes are made to many functionalities at the same time; so testers require to test all those functionalities. Sometimes we have to run all the Scenarios marked as @regression or sometime all scenarios with @smoke and sometimes; we want to run all Scenarios for search feature or login feature or both.

Logic of AND and OR work similar to logical operator exist in other programming language.  There is also logical NOT in Behat if you want to skip or ignore particular scenario. Which we will discuss later.

Consider below example:

#language: en
@login
Feature: Login Functionality

  Background:
    Given I am on homepage
    When I follow "Sign in"
    And I wait 3 seconds

  @smoke
  Scenario: Verify user Login
    And I fill in "email" with "goswami.tarun77+1@gmail.com"
    And I fill in "passwd" with "Test1234"
    And I press "SubmitLogin"
    And I wait 10 seconds

  @regression @smoke
  Scenario: Create New User
    And I fill in "email_create" with "test@gmail.com"
    Then I press "SubmitCreate"

  @sanity
  Scenario: Forgot password
    And I follow "Forgot your password?"

ANDing: When you want to execute scenarios tagged with @regression and @smoke. Use below command:

$ bin/behat --tags '@regression&&@smoke'

This will execute second scenario, since that is the only scenario with both tags. 

ORing: When we want to run the Scenarios with either of the mentioned Tags.  For example when you want to execute the scenario tagged with @smoke or @sanity. Use below command:

$ bin/behat --tags '@smoke,@sanity'

this is same as:

$ bin/behat --tags 'smoke,sanity'

This will execute all 3 scenarios. We have used single feature file for demo but Anding Oring  is not limited for single feature file. It is applicable to complete project.

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