[Feature]: Feature files pre-processing

[vitalets]

The Problem

Sometimes users want to pre-process feature files: use original feature files as templates and enrich them with some data (possibly generation multiple final feature files from the same template).

Here are some references:

• [Question]: Is there a way to internationalize the step parameters only #314
• Data-driven testing with Excel? #245
• [Question]: how to cusomize generated test file name format #294
• [Question]: Create a fixture to make a Tag environment dependant? #309

This ticket wraps all these use cases and tracks the progress.

Proposed Solution

Provide a built-in option in playwright-bdd to pre-process feature files, filling them with parameters from Playwright config.

Additional Context

Currently the same task can be solved on user-land by custom scripts (ai generates such scripts very well).

Priority Level

Medium

[esakkimuthu-m-19817]

@vitalets shall we prioritise this feature request?

[vitalets]

@esakkimuthu-m-19817 It’s a broad topic, so I’m trying to understand where playwright-bdd would be more useful than a custom preprocessing step like this:

node pre-process.js && npx bddgen && npx playwright test

Could you share your specific use case?