Is it possible to execute same tags multiple times in maven command for cucumber project on different tag position?

Question

I have 5 scenarios and those tags are @UserAddSaveButton, @UserEditSaveButton, @UserAddSaveContinueButton, @UserEditSaveContinueButton, @UserDelete

Now I want to execute all 5 scenario in below sequence @UserAddSaveButton, @UserEditSaveButton, @UserDelete, @UserAddSaveContinueButton, @UserEditSaveContinueButton, @UserDelete

See @UserDelete tag is used twice but when I execute Maven command it's executed only once and at last position is not working.

Answer 1

Nope, you can't achieve this with a single TestRunner file.

Here are my 2 ways:

Solution#1:

1. Create 3 TestRunner files
2. In your testng.xml file, create 4 <suite> tags that contains TestRunner test classes in this order - TestRunner1, TestRunner2, TestRunner3 and TestRunner2
3. TestRunner1 to execute '@UserAddSaveButton, @UserEditSaveButton' tags
4. TestRunner2 to execute '@UserDelete' tag
5. TestRunner3 to execute '@UserAddSaveContinueButton, @UserEditSaveContinueButton' tags

Now run your tests (as mvn test or from testng.xml), deletion scenario will be executed as mentioned in testng.xml order by TestRunner2 suite#2 and suite#4 as you expected.

Solution#2:

1. Make your deletion tests/steps in single function
2. Create conditional hooks

@After("@UserEditSaveButton or @UserEditSaveContinueButton")
public void deletionSteps(){
// your deletion steps goes here OR 
// call your deletion step from here
}

3. Just have single TestRunner file for tags '@UserAddSaveButton, @UserEditSaveButton, @UserAddSaveContinueButton, @UserEditSaveContinueButton'
4. The conditional @After hook will take care of performing the deletion (You can remove the deletion scenario from your feature file)

However, non-technical users will not know that deletion is performed after the execution of @UserEditSaveButton OR @UserEditSaveContinueButton scenarios.