How to run cucumber-jvm tests using Gradle - cucumber

Question

I am trying to get a project going using the new Cucumber-jvm system and Gradle as my build system.
I have used the example Java code in the GitHub cucumber-jvm project(https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm).
My project is set up in IntelliJ and the IDE is able to run the test.
However, Gradle does not find any tests to run. I know this because I broke the test and Gradle said nothing. It also said nothing when it was working.
The class it is trying to run looks like this:
import cucumber.junit.Cucumber;
import cucumber.junit.Feature;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#Feature(value = "CarMaintenance.feature")
public class FuelCarTest {
}
I'm new to both cucumber and Gradle!!

Answer 1

I remember having trouble with Gradle and Cucumber with the junit runner.
I eventually gave up and created a gradle task using the command line runner.
task executeFeatures(type: JavaExec, dependsOn: testClasses) {
main = "cucumber.cli.Main"
classpath += files(sourceSets.test.runtimeClasspath, file(webAppDir.path + '/WEB-INF/classes'))
args += [ '-f', 'html:build/reports/cucumber', '-g', 'uk.co.filmtrader', 'src/test/resources/features']
}
-f Folder for html report output
-g Package name for glue/step code
src/test/resources/features Where the feature files are
With the following dependencies
testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-all:1.9.5',
'junit:junit:4.11',
'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:1.3',
'info.cukes:cucumber-java:1.0.14',
'info.cukes:cucumber-junit:1.0.14',
'info.cukes:cucumber-spring:1.0.14'
Update for version 4.2.5
There had been some minor changes over time:
the package name of the cli changed to cucumber.api.cli.Main
The flag -f seems no longer to be working and causes an error
So I ended up with the following task definition in my build.gradle:
task executeFeatures(type: JavaExec, dependsOn: testClasses) {
main = "cucumber.api.cli.Main"
classpath += files(sourceSets.test.runtimeClasspath)
args += [ '-g', 'uk.co.filmtrader', 'src/test/resources/features']
}

Answer 2

other way can be to create a task and include runner class for test
build.gradle-
task RunCukesTest(type: Test) << {
include "RunCukesTest.class"
}
testCompile 'io.cucumber:cucumber-java:4.2.0'
testCompile 'io.cucumber:cucumber-junit:4.2.0'
your class -
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#CucumberOptions(dryRun = false, strict = true, features = "src/test/resources", glue
= "com.gradle.featuretests",monochrome = true)
public class RunCukesTest {
}
simply hit the command :- gradle RunCukesTest

Answer 3

Considering:
Your .feature files are in src/test/resources/cucumber/features and
your glue classes are in com.example.myapp.glue
Then, following what is explained in the docs, you can do in build.gradle:
dependencies {
// ...
testImplementation("io.cucumber:cucumber-java:6.2.2")
testImplementation("io.cucumber:cucumber-junit:6.2.2")
testImplementation("io.cucumber:cucumber-junit-platform-engine:6.2.2")
}
configurations {
cucumberRuntime {
extendsFrom testImplementation
}
}
// this enables the task `gradle cucumber`
task cucumber() {
dependsOn assemble, compileTestKotlin
doLast {
javaexec {
main = "io.cucumber.core.cli.Main"
classpath = configurations.cucumberRuntime + sourceSets.main.output + sourceSets.test.output
args = ['--strict', '--plugin', 'pretty', '--plugin', 'junit:build/test-results/cucumber.xml', '--glue', 'com.example.myapp.glue', 'src/test/resources/cucumber/features']
}
}
}
// (OPTIONAL) this makes `gradle test` also include cucumber tests
tasks.test {
finalizedBy cucumber
}
Now gradle cucumber will run the cucumber tests.
If you added the last part, gradle test will also run cucumber tests.
The args part supports what goes in the #CucumberOptions annotation of the runner. More details: https://cucumber.io/docs/cucumber/api/#list-configuration-options