Comments in Cucumber

• Gherkin supports single line comments and no multiline comments. Comments should start from # character. 

• Comments can be put anywhere in feature file, starting from # character till the end of the line will be considered as comment. 

• Example 

# This is a comment

Feature: Login

# This is a comment

  Scenario: Successful Login to the page

    Given I open Chrome browser

    # This is a comment

    # This is a comment

    And I navigate to login page

    But I navigate to login page in a new tab

    When I click on login option

    # This is a comment

    When I provide username as "manu.m@tools4testing.com" and password as "*****"

    But Username should be Email

    When I click on login button

    Then Login success window should be displayed

    Then Login success window should welcome me

    But Login success window should be a pop up

# This is a comment

• Cucumber features can be written by any spoken language of your customer and not just limited to English. It can be written in language like German, French, Kannada, Dutch etc… 

• If language other than English is used then put a # language: comment on the first line of a feature file. Below is an example for feature written in Kannada language. 

# language: no

Feature: ಲಾಗಿನ್ ಮಾಡಿ

  Scenario: ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಯಶಸ್ವಿ ಲಾಗಿನ್

    Given ನಾನು ಬ್ರೌಸರ್ ತೆರೆಯುತ್ತೇನೆ

    When ನಾನು ಲಾಗಿನ್ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ನ್ಯಾವಿಗೇಟ್ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ

    Then ಲಾಗಿನ್ ಪುಟವನ್ನು ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಬೇಕು