Selenium Webdriver: Automatically Repeating a successful scenario

Question

I use Selenium Webdriver tests based on Java/Gherkin/Cucumber.

I have a test running that I want to run multiple times, without me having to restart the scenario several times.

The Gherkin script is something like this:

Given the user opens a browser
Then the user fills in the form
Then the user repeats the filling of the form *5* times 

This way, if I want 10 forms to be filled in, I can just replace the 5 with 10, press play, and grab a beer.

Is this at all possible or do I just have to re-run the scenario manually 5 times?

Answer 1

First you could simplify a bit your Gherkin scenario, like:

 Given the user opens a browser

 Then the user fills in the form 5 times

Taking this scenario you then generate your methods and in the second method you can add a loop, like:

[Then(@"the user fills in the form (.*) times")]

public void ThenTheUserFillsInTheForm(int nrOfTimes)   
{        
    for(int i = 0; i < nrOfTimes; i++)
    {

      //user fills in the form

    }
}