Noskip Examples

Noskip tag fails the scenario or step if it skips. Using this tag lets us use GIVEN and WHEN steps similar to a THEN step.

Then I must have resource defined

Since THEN steps exclusively drill down the resource passed from the previous step, we could not write the THEN step below, which checks the existence of something outside of its context.

Given I have azurerm_postgresql_server defined
Then I must have azurerm_postgresql_configuration defined

With @noskip, we can:

@noskip_at_line_3
Scenario: resource A implies resource B
    Given I have azurerm_postgresql_server defined
    Given I have azurerm_postgresql_configuration defined # line 3

Note that the scenario doesn’t fail if azurerm_postgresql_server doesn’t exist. It only fails when there is the first resource but not the second.

Filtering Then

Since THEN steps exlusively drill down, we can’t write consecutive THEN steps that check the properties of the same resource within that resource and stay on the same level.

we would need to write a new scenario if we wanted to check a property that was lost during the “drill”

resource "azurerm_postgresql_configuration" "log_checkpoints" {
  name                = "log_checkpoints"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  server_name         = azurerm_postgresql_server.example.name
  value               = "on"
}

resource "azurerm_postgresql_configuration" "log_connections" {
  name                = "log_connections"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  server_name         = azurerm_postgresql_server.example.name
  value               = "on"
}

... # many more configurations

If I wanted to accomplish

If I have azurerm_postgresql_server
    - server parameter 'log_checkpoints' must be set to 'ON' for PostgreSQL Database Server

Using THEN its name bust be log_connections would drill down to log_connections and we wouldn’t be able check if the value is on or not.

With @noskip, we can:

@noskip_at_lines_4_5
Scenario Outline: Filtering then
    Given I have azurerm_postgresql_server defined
    Given I have azurerm_postgresql_configuration defined  # line 4
    When its name is log_checkpoints  # line 5
    Then it must have value
    Then its value must match the "on" regex

Note that on line 5, we don’t drill down to name but still fail if there is no “log_checkpoints”