Integrating external data source with Cucumber feature file

Question

I am new to Cucumber and the feature files it uses for BDD. I want to know if there is any way I could directly give the filepath of my external data file (eg. CSV file), and fetch the values of the parameters I use to create my test script.

Answer 1

You can add a tag with parameter to the features

@data("/path/data.json")
  Scenario: Login as zinc admin
    Given I open zinc homepage

And then create hook that reads the param and loads file before running a scenario.

Before do |scenario|
  // read data from tag param
end