Warning: "Feature is not under a declared module directory" — but the file runs fine

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I put a new file at features/smoke-checks.feature, straight under features/. It runs, it passes, but every lint gives me:

text

⚠ features/smoke-checks.feature:1  module/unassigned  Feature is not under a declared module directory (features/auth, features/inventory, features/cart, features/api, features/hybrid).
1 feature file(s), 0 error(s), 1 warning(s)

It is only a warning so nothing is blocked, but it is noise on every run. Is the fix to add a module, or to move the file?

lint config

asked by Gio Castellano

2 answers

Accepted answer
Move the file, in almost every case. Modules are the unit that carries ownership and expectations — owner, jira component, the routes and endpoints it covers, the tags every scenario in it should have, and the testing types it is allowed to declare. A feature outside all of them has none of that, and it will not show up under a module in coverage.
The list in the message is built from your own modules block, so it is telling you the whole set of valid homes:
yaml
```
modules:
  - name: cart
    title: Cart
    path: cart
    layers: [ui]
    testingTypes: [functional, regression]
    tags: ['@cart']
    routes: [cart, checkout]
```
path defaults to name, which is why features/cart/ works with no path line at all. If your file really is a cross-cutting set of checks that belongs to nothing, declare a module for it — that is cheaper than living with the warning and eventually ignoring warnings generally.
answered by Reeta NandalSDODS team
Worth adding that the rule only fires when you have modules at all. A project with an empty modules list never gets this warning, so if you are early and still shuffling directories you can leave modules out until the shape settles.
answered by Marijn Kuiper

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