-t @regression,@mock ran more scenarios, not fewer

Asked 2 Mar 20228,300 views2 answers

23votes

I wanted the regression scenarios that are mocked, so I asked for both tags:

bash

sdods run -p demo-shop -e staging -t @regression,@mock

It ran considerably more than either tag has on its own. I expected a comma to mean "and". What does it mean?

asked by Gio Castellano521 · 2 Mar 2022

2 answers

27votes✓
Accepted answer
Or. A comma list is shorthand for an or-expression, so -t smoke,sanity is "@smoke or @sanity" and yours was every regression scenario plus every mocked one. The @ is optional in that form, which is the only reason the shorthand exists.
For anything else, write the expression and quote it:
bash
```
sdods run -p demo-shop -e staging -t "@regression and @mock"
sdods run -p demo-shop -e staging -t "@regression and not @mock"
```
It is Cucumber tag-expression syntax, so and, or, not and parentheses all work.
answered by Reeta Nandalmaintainer41,280 · 2 Mar 2022
14votes
Quote it on Windows even when the expression is a single tag. A bare @-prefixed token is splatting syntax in PowerShell, so -t @smoke can be mangled before the CLI ever sees the argument. -t "@smoke" is unambiguous everywhere and costs you two characters.
answered by Sam Orbison9,420 · 4 Mar 2022

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