[SOLVED] Cucumber test report from Rakefile

Cucumber test report from Rakefile

I have a set of Ruby/Cucumber tests. All tests run successfully when run in an IDE.

When I execute tests using this CLI command, the tests run and a test report is generated.

$ cucumber --format progress --format html --out=features_report.html -r features --tags '@this or @that' features

I need to execute the tests from a Rakefile in order to run tests in parallel. I can run them calling the Rakefile below with rake local


desc 'Run the functional test suite locally'
  task :local do

test_args = ["-n", '1', 
             "-o" "-t '@this or @that'",
             "--type", 
             "cucumber", 
             '--',
             '-f',
             'progress', 
             '--',
             'features',]

    ParallelTests::CLI.new.run(test_args)
  end

But I can't figure out where the extra options/arguments that generate a test report go.

If I group the report bits in the Rakefile as they are in the working CLI command

             'progress',
              '-f',
              'HTML', 
             '--out',
             'first.html',

I get this error:

Error creating formatter: HTML (LoadError)

Or, if I do this "-o" "-t '@this or @that' --out first.html --format HTML",

I get this:

All but one formatter must use --out, only one can print to each stream (or STDOUT) (RuntimeError)

Where in the test_args do the arguments that generate a test report go and what do they look like?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

You can create profile in the cucumber.yml file and pass the arguments under profile as shown below.

default:
  --no-source --no-color
  --format progress --format html --out=features_report.html

Now run your rake task as is, cucumber will pick the arguments from cucumber.yml file and generates the report.