Cucumber 10.0.0 changes execution order of the feature files when `paths` configuration is provided

[pk]

👓 What did you see?

We use configuration profiles with paths attribute to enforce execution order in our E2E test suites:

export const ciexcludebugs = {
  ...JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(common)),
  tags: '(not @bug) and (not @ignore)',
  paths: [
    'fixtures/',
    'features/'
  ]
}

In 9.x.x all fixtures (subfolders, and respective *.feature files) have been executed first and the features after that. Since 10.x.x the order is reversed and features are always the first.

We have fixtures and features (both Cucumber feature files). fixtures contains cucumber feature files which execute and each saves a state of our server into a json file - we generate re-usable state & we test our management features.

✅ What did you expect to see?

The Cucumber should execute the feature files in the specified order from the Profile paths (or command line) and then, within the folders alphabetically as in 9.x.x.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

Cucumber 10.0.0 Node.js 20.8.1

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

Use profile paths as above or cucumber-js fixtures/ features/

[pk]

I've been going through the open issues and I'm not sure if this one is relevant or not to my use case: #2253

[davidjgoss]

Thanks for raising @pk. I think this has come from the upgrade to the latest glob which we did before the 10.0.0 release and included some changes to ordering which we had to adapt. I'll take a look and see what we can do to fix.

[pk]

@davidjgoss I had to revert to @cucumber/cucumber@9.6.0 to have the (my) expected behaviour. Which I think is the latest 9x release, right?

[davidjgoss]

@pk that's right yes.

[davidjgoss]

Released in https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/releases/tag/v10.0.1

[pk]

Hi @davidjgoss , thank you for the quick fix and release. We confirm the fix works, at least for our scenario.