Using Tags to organise BDD Scenarios

Tags are one of the key tools to organise your scenarios. As your feature files develop, tags provide a limitless way to organise your scenarios, a few examples of how they can be used are to identify functionality, and to specify the test stage or the development status.

AssertThat - BDD, Cucumber & Test Management for Jira plugin Allows tags to be added at Feature, Scenario and Example level tags

Tags are inherited so for example

Feature tags apply for all Scenarios, Scenario Outline or Examples
Scenario outline tags apply to all Examples

1 Tag types
- 1.1 Feature tags
- 1.2 Scenario or Scenario Outline tags
- 1.3 Examples tags
2 How to organise tags

Tag types

Feature tags

Step 1: Access the AssertThat Feature menu

Access AssertThat Feature Menu

Step 2: Feature tags can be added from 2 places either on the main Features screen:

Add Feature tags from Feature page

or from within the feature:

Scenario or Scenario Outline tags

Step 1: Scenario and Scenario Outline tags are added in the scenarios screen:

Note that scenario outline tags are inherited for all examples.

Examples tags

Step 1: Examples tags are setup as follows:

How to organise tags

A few useful tips and guidance can be found in this blog post on how to Organise BDD Tags.