diff --git a/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/run.py b/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/run.py
index 0f012bd2cf..bb46ab5373 100644
--- a/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/run.py
+++ b/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/run.py
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ def run_tests(args):
         behave_args.extend(args["advanced_arguments"].split())
     elif not args["console"]:
         behave_args.extend(["--format", "json.pretty", "--outfile", "report/report.json"])
+    if args["ifcfile"]:
+        behave_args.extend(["--define", "ifcfile={}".format(args["ifcfile"])])
+    if args["path"]:
+        behave_args.extend(["--define", "path={}".format(args["path"])])
     behave_main(behave_args)
     print("# All tests are finished.")
     return True
diff --git a/src/ifcbimtester/startbimtester.py b/src/ifcbimtester/startbimtester.py
index 88b755ae6a..d0510ae66b 100644
--- a/src/ifcbimtester/startbimtester.py
+++ b/src/ifcbimtester/startbimtester.py
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         action="store_true",
         help="Generate a HTML report after running the tests"
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-path",
+        "--path",
+        type=str,
+        help=(
+            "Specify a path to prepend to feature and ifc file"
+        ),
+        default=""
+    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "-c",
         "--console",
@@ -101,6 +110,12 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     args = vars(parser.parse_args())
     print(args)
 
+    if args["path"]:
+        if args["feature"]:
+            args["feature"] = os.path.join(args["path"], args["feature"])
+        if not args["gui"]:
+            args["ifcfile"] = os.path.join(args["path"], args["ifcfile"])
+
     if args["purge"]:
         clean.TestPurger().purge()
     elif args["report"]: