Is it possible to use Pytest BDD without writing feature file ?

[jossefaz]

Is it possible to use pytest-bdd features (like the "given" decorator) without writing gherkin ".feature" file, but just based on list of strings ?

For exmple I have this list as an input :

some_steps = ["A user with roles X,Y,Z", "Click on this button"]

Now I would like to execute those steps using a simple for loop that iterates through the some_steps variable.
Let's say for instance that I expect those functions to be called :

@given("A user with {roles}", target_fixture="user")
def user_precondition():
     # some logic to create a user here

@when("Click on this button")
def user_click(user):
    # some logic here

[youtux]

I'm sorry but this is not supported out of the box.

The only workaround I can think of is to make your own function that generates scenario files programmatically, and call it at import time in your test module.

[evbo]

@youtux it's hard to discern in this issue, but it appears long ago there was work done to generate one from the other: #103

I just learned about this repo, but as an outsider it seems in the best interest of everyone to automate the creation of feature files from test files, to avoid redundant labor and bugs due to them falling out of sync. I'm just surprised this isn't a more popular feature request. Any reasons not to support this sort of automation?

[evbo]

so it looks like you can't generate .feature files automatically, but you can generate test code automatically... I wish you could generate either..

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