Geb and Cucumber

[Mike Hunter]

A few years back at a previous employer, Geb and Cucumber were used very successfully.  I personally helped build up the solutions so at the time, felt like I knew the in's and out's of the tooling pretty well.  That was back when Java 8 was newer etc. and since moving on - I've not kept up to date with the tools.  

Fast forward, and I'm now currently trying to put together a POC of these tools - however; I'm struggling getting these two tools to work well with latest versions of Groovy, Gradle, Java 11, etc.  Geb's cucumber example still shows Java 8 and Gradle 4.x (from what I can tell it's because of the incompatibilities to various plugins, specifically 'com.github.samueltbrown.cucumber'.  I really like that plugin as it used to always "work".  I attempted to use a different one but didn't have much luck getting it to find the Groovy  glue / env on classpath.  Additionally, I see a few options now for Cucumber / Groovy but I'm not sure which is the better option (given I've been able to get either to work yet).  I've tried both info.cukes:cucumber-groovy:1.2.5 which is used in Geb's cucumber example, and the seemingly newer one, io.cucumber:cucumber-groovy:4.7.1 which I found being used in Cucumber's Gradle example, https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-java-skeleton.  Additionally, Cucumber Groovy example uses Maven and I wasn't able to figure out or find the Cucumber dependency being used there: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm-groovy/blob/master/examples/pom.xml (they're example uses, io.cucumber:cucumber-jvm-groovy:5.1.3-SNAPSHOT).

I've found using Groovy with Cucumber so simple and easy in the past, however; for as long as I can remember, the Cucumber-Groovy implementation has been unsupported for years (https://cucumber.io/docs/installation/), though I've not ran into a problem until now trying to get things working.  I'd also like to keep using Groovy to help push using Geb w/ Spock (which I've got working fine).  I'm just trying to enable re-using the same Geb pages by Cucumber's specs now.

So, in an effort to try and keep this as short as possible - any recommendations / success stories out there using Java 11, Gradle 6+, and Groovy w/ Cucumber?  And if so, what specific versions and plugins are working for you?

Thanks in advance!!

Mick

[Marcin Erdmann]

Mike,

Unfortunately I don't have much experience with cucumber other than maintaining the example project for using Geb with it so I cannot offer any advice on how to get it working with the newer stack you are using. On the other hand, if you do get it working then I would appreciate it if you could feed back what versions and what plugins you ended up using so that I can update the example project. It might be beneficial to others.

> Additionally, Cucumber Groovy example uses Maven and I wasn't able to figure out or find the Cucumber dependency being used there

It looks like automated publishing of versions has been stopped after 4.7.1: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm-groovy/commit/30fa9382ba0fa1ac211d1cd263bfce4e2aa791c8 and no releases have been made since. On the other hand there seem to be a lot of activity on the repo lately, so maybe another release is coming soon: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm-groovy/commits/master. Indeed: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm-groovy/issues/19#issuecomment-634783593.

Thanks,

Marcin

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[Stefan Hildebrandt]

Hi Mike,

I have a small example project for testcontainers with an example with geb and cucumber (and testcontainers) using gradle. 

https://github.com/hildebrandttk/testcontainers-examples/blob/master/build.gradle

The setup differs to marcins example. The glue code is in 

https://github.com/hildebrandttk/testcontainers-examples/blob/master/42-cucumber/src/test/groovy/tk/hildebrandt/testcontainers/geb/GebEnabledStep.groovy

https://github.com/hildebrandttk/testcontainers-examples/blob/master/42-cucumber/src/test/groovy/tk/hildebrandt/testcontainers/geb/GebLifeCycle.groovy

The style is not very groovy, but I prefere writing typed pages and using it in a fluent api manner. I will try to update/extend the examples within the next days.

regrads Stefan

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