Gherkin — Rule Keyword (Gherkin 6)
Two Rule blocks, the first with its own Background that applies only to the examples inside it. Parsers written before Gherkin 6 either reject Rule outright or, worse, hoist the Background to the whole feature and add a step to the third example that was never there.
Feature: Free shipping
Rule: Orders over 50.00 ship free
Background:
Given the free-shipping threshold is 50.00
Example: An order above the threshold ships free
Given a cart subtotal of 62.40
When I view the shipping cost
Then the shipping cost is 0.00
Example: An order below the threshold pays shipping
Given a cart subtotal of 49.99
When I view the shipping cost
Then the shipping cost is 4.95
Rule: Digital-only orders never pay shipping
Example: A digital-only cart ships free at any subtotal
Given a cart containing only digital items
And a cart subtotal of 3.00
When I view the shipping cost
Then the shipping cost is 0.00
Specifications
- Seed
- 61200
- Encoding
- UTF-8
- Line Endings
- LF
- Gherkin Dialect
- en
- Rules
- 2
- Examples
- 3
- Backgrounds
- 1
- Background Scope
- first Rule only
- Gherkin Version
- 6+
- Example Keyword
- Example (synonym of Scenario)
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Parse a feature that groups examples under Rule blocks with a rule-scoped Background.
- Expected result
- Three examples are found across two rules; the first two carry the Background step and the third does not.
What is a .feature file?
A .feature file holds a Gherkin specification: a business-readable, plain-text description of behaviour written as Feature, Background, Scenario, and Scenario Outline blocks whose steps begin with Given, When, Then, And, or But. Scenario Outlines are parameterised by an Examples table, and tags such as @smoke mark subsets of the suite. Cucumber, Behave, SpecFlow, and Behat all read the same grammar, with localised keyword sets available for non-English specifications.
How to use this file
Use an example .feature file to test Gherkin parsers, step-definition matchers, linters, and editor tooling — verifying tag inheritance, Scenario Outline expansion against the Examples table, docstring and data-table arguments, and behaviour on deliberately malformed keywords.
How to use this file for testing
“Gherkin — Rule Keyword (Gherkin 6)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Code parsing, Conversion testing, Editor testing. Short, known-correct source files in many languages with classes, functions, generics, enums, and error handling — for testing parsers, linters, formatters, language detection, and diff viewers.
Documented properties for this file: seed 61200 · UTF-8 · LF. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Test and coverage reports document their totals (suites, cases, passes, failures, skips, covered lines) in the spec table. Point your CI dashboard, coverage gate, or report converter at the file and assert those counts survive; format twins carry identical numbers so a conversion can be scored exactly.
Related files
- featureGherkin — Checkout Feature (Background, Outline, Doc String)The source feature for this whole group: a Background with a data table, a plain scenario, a Scenario Outline expanded by two Examples tables, and a scenario asserting against a doc string. It compiles to exactly six pickles and 32 pickle steps — the numbers the cucumber-messages and cucumber.json twins next to it report.
- robotRobot Framework — Checkout SuiteA complete Robot Framework suite with all four common sections, scalar, list and dictionary variables, a continued line using ..., and user keywords with arguments. Robot separates arguments on two or more spaces, so a parser splitting on a single space merges every keyword call into one token.
- robotRobot Framework — Data-Driven Test TemplateThe template form, in which the *** Test Cases *** header itself names the argument columns and each row becomes one test. Five tests share a single keyword body, and a parser that reads the header row as a test name reports six.
- robotRobot Framework — Shared Keyword ResourceA resource file: keywords, variables and imports with no *** Test Cases *** section at all, meant to be imported by the suites next to it. Tooling that requires at least one test case rejects a perfectly ordinary resource, and keyword defaults such as ${qty}=1 are where argument parsers usually stop.
- xmlCoverage — Clover XMLThe Clover serialisation, whose <metrics> element rolls statements, conditionals and methods into a single elements/coveredelements pair. Anything reading only that pair reports a blended percentage that matches none of the other three formats unless the components are separated first. Every file in this group describes the same four-file source tree and reports 127/140 lines, 17/24 branch outcomes and 18/20 functions, so a converter can be diffed against a known answer.
- xmlCoverage — Cobertura at Zero CoverageA structurally complete Cobertura report in which line-rate and branch-rate are 0.0 everywhere. The counterpart to the zero-coverage LCOV file, for checking that a converter keeps the class and method structure when there is nothing covered to describe.
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