Thanks in advance!
We have some Automation tests using the selenium web driver which are great and provide a really good regression pack.
The problem is now we have feature toggles in our code. So I need to say ignore these tests unless that feature toggle is turned On/ Off. I can't find anything really searching Google.
Ideally I don't want a 'if' statement at the top of the Feature tests but it looks like it's going to be the main way. My initial thoughts where to create a custom attribute
public class IsFeatureFlagTurnedOn : Attribute
{
public IsFeatureFlagTurnedOn(string featureToggleName)
{
FeatureToggleName = featureToggleName;
}
public string FeatureToggleName {get;}
}
public class MyTests
{
[TestMethod]
[IsFeatureFlagTurnedOn("MyFeature1")]
public void ItShould()
{
// only run if MyFeature1 is turned on
}
}
I some how need to hook into the MSTest pipeline and say if this attribute is present and the logic for MyFeature1 is turned off then don't run this test - Looked at dynamically adding the [Ignore] but with no luck.
This is running through VSTS and I could use [TestCategories] but I'd have to keep updating the pipeline to which feature is turned on/off which I don't want to do.
Any help or suggestions would be great!
MSTest v2 now has a lot of extensibility points, and you can achieve this by extending the
TestMethodAttribute
. First we add two attribute arguments, astring
for a property name and aType
that has the property. Then we override theExecute
method and invoke the property via reflection. If the result istrue
, we'll execute the test as normal, otherwise we return an 'inconclusive` test result.Now we can use our new attribute like this:
The above is a very generic solution. You could also customize it a little more to your particular use case to perhaps avoid quite so much verbosity in the attribute declaration:
And use it like: