Is it possible to skip a scenario with Cucumber-JVM at run-time

Question

I want to add a tag @skiponchrome to a scenario, this should skip the scenario when running a Selenium test with the Chrome browser. The reason to-do this is because some sc

Answer 1

I really prefer to be explicit about which tests are being run, by having separate run configurations defined for each environment. I also like to keep the number of tags I use to a minimum, to keep the number of configurations manageable.

I don't think it's possible to achieve what you want with tags alone. You would need to write a custom jUnit test runner to use in place of @RunWith(Cucumber.class). Take a look at the Cucumber implementation to see how things work. You would need to alter the RuntimeOptions created by the RuntimeOptionsFactory to include/exclude tags depending on the browser, or other runtime condition.

Alternatively, you could consider writing a small script which invokes your test suite, building up a list of tags to include/exclude dynamically, depending on the environment you're running in. I would consider this to be a more maintainable, cleaner solution.