[🐛 Bug]: Skipping tests in cucumber with @skip is not working #14671
Description
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WebdriverIO Version
9.18.4
Node.js Version
20.11.1
Mode
Standalone Mode
Which capabilities are you using?
{
browserName: 'chrome'
}What happened?
In a project with WebdriverIO v9 and Cucumber and a scenario with the tag @skip(browserName=["chrome","safari"]), the execution fails, because cucumber returns an error if one of the skipped browser is set on the capabilities.
What is your expected behavior?
The execution should be successful, skipping the scenarios with the skip tag that matched with the current capabilities
How to reproduce the bug.
I created a reproducible example here: https://github.com/Nyaran/webdriverio-cucumber-skip
Just download it, install dependencies and run
git clone https://github.com/Nyaran/webdriverio-cucumber-skip
webdriverio-cucumber-skip
npm i
npm run wdioRelevant log output
[0-0] 2025-07-28T18:45:38.414Z ERROR @wdio/local-runner: Failed launching test session: Error: Tag expression "(not @skip\(browserName=\["chrome","safari"\]\))" could not be parsed because of syntax error: Illegal escape before "[".
[0-0] at tokenize (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/tag-expressions/src/index.ts:104:15)
[0-0] at parse (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/tag-expressions/src/index.ts:23:18)
[0-0] at PickleTagFilter (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/pickle_filter.ts:136:37)
[0-0] at PickleFilter (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/pickle_filter.ts:36:22)
[0-0] at <anonymous> (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/filter/filter_plugin.ts:15:28)
[0-0] at PluginManager.transform (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/plugin/plugin_manager.ts:87:30)
[0-0] at loadSources (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/src/api/load_sources.ts:50:47)
[0-0] at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[0-0] at CucumberAdapter.init (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@wdio/cucumber-framework/build/index.js:219:22)
[0-0] at Object.adapterFactory.init (/tmp/webdriverio-cucumber-skip/node_modules/@wdio/cucumber-framework/build/index.js:508:20)
[0-0] SYNCHRONOUS TERMINATION NOTICE: When explicitly exiting the process via process.exit or via a parent process, asynchronous tasks in your exitHooks will not run. Either remove these tasks, use gracefulExit() instead of process.exit(), or ensure your parent process sends a SIGINT to the process running this code.
[0-0] FAILEDCode of Conduct
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