There are cases when you want to temporarily ignore a scenario, scenario outline, examples, or feature execution.
For this, you can use @ignore tag. You can attach it to any of the elements listed above. This tag (just as any other tag) gets inherited. i.e. when you ignore a feature, all scenarios and scenario outlines are ignored under that feature.
Here is the example of a feature which has 2 elements ignored - examples "of floating point numbers" under a scenario outline named "Add two numbers with examples", and a scenario named "Add floating point numbers".
Feature: AddTwoNumbers
In order to learn Math
As a regular human
I want to add two numbers using Calculator
Scenario Outline: Add two numbers with examples
Given I chose <a> as first number
And I chose <b> as second number
When I press add
Then the result should be <sum> on the screen
@addition
Examples:
| a | b | sum |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 9 | 10 |
Examples: of bigger numbers
| a | b | sum |
| 99 | 1 | 100 |
| 100 | 200 | 300 |
@bigaddition
Examples: of large numbers
| a | b | sum |
| 999 | 1 | 1000 |
| 9999 | 1 | 10000 |
@ignore
Examples: of floating point numbers
| a | b | sum |
| 1.1 | 2.2 | 3.3 |
@ignore
Scenario: Add floating point numbers
Given I chose 1.11 as first number
And I chose 2.22 as second number
When I press add
Then the result should be 3.33 on the screen
Items that are not ignored will execute as usual, i.e. other examples of the scenario outline "Add two numbers with examples".
Ignored elements are still discovered by the test runners, but they are skipped during execution. Interface and output will be similar to ignored/skipped unit test execution.
Yellow triangle in front of the 2 scenarios below denotes skipped items after test execution in Visual Studio test runner.
