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Export BDD Cases to Feature Files

Owned by Noopur Varshney [AIO Tests]
Last updated: May 21, 2023 by Niharika [AIO Tests]
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AIO Tests can export BDD/Gherkin based tests into feature files. These can be directly used as source for writing step definitions in Cucumber or SpecFlow. This article details the steps to export BDD cases and the options available to organize the feature files.

Steps to Export BDD cases

  1. Navigate to Cases tab & click on ‘More Actions’ ellipsis and then click on Export to Feature File option

  2. The Export to Feature File modal opens up. There are 3 options to group feature files by.


    a. Folder : All BDD cases in the folder will be added to one feature file. If cases from multiple folders are selected by using Filters, then one feature file will be created per folder.
    b. Requirement : BDD cases will be grouped by requirements.
    If a case has multiple requirements linked to it, then the same case would be added as scenario to 2 feature files.
    c. Tag: BDD cases will be grouped by tags. As in requirement, if a case has multiple tags tagged to it, then the same case would be added as scenario to multiple feature files.
    d. None: All BDD cases selected will be added to single feature file.

    Select the option by which the feature files need to be organised

  3. Post fetching, requirement information, the feature files would be downloaded in a zip format. Unzip the downloaded file.

Feature file/Scenario details

The exported feature files have the below information based on the choice of organization:

Feature file

Organise by Folder

Requirement

Tag

None

Feature file

Organise by Folder

Requirement

Tag

None

File Name

Folder name

Requirement key

Tag name

ProjectKey_Feature

Feature Name

Folder name

Requirement summary

Tag name

ProjectKey_Feature

Tag at feature level

-

Requirement key

Tag name

-

Scenario Tags

  1. All tags in case

  2. Requirement prefixed with @JREQ-

  1. All tags in case

  1. Requirement prefixed with @JREQ-

  1. All tags in case

  2. Requirement prefixed with @JREQ-

Scenario in a feature file have the following data copied from AIO Cases:

AIO Test Case field

Translated to in feature file

AIO Test Case field

Translated to in feature file

Case key

Scenario tag eg. @AT-TC-121

Case title

Scenario/Scenario Outline name

Case description

Scenario description

Tags

Tags on each scenario

Requirement

@JREQ-<storykey> eg. @JREQ-AT-1

Steps

Scenario Steps

Examples

Examples

Data

If pipe separated, then exported as datatable, else as docstring (encapsulated in “““)

Exported file example

The below file is exported when Organise by Requirements is selected.

  • Requirement key @JREQ-SCRUM-75 is the Jira requirement key as a feature level tag.

  • Feature name is Requirement summary, coming from the Jira Issue

  • Case keys are @TCMSTES-TC-327 and @TCMSTES-TC-329 added to each scenario

  • Tags of each case become scenario level tags

  • Steps get added with corresponding keywords