How to reuse the same steps from different definitions classes?

[oleg manzhos]

Hi, guys.

I've got the following question.

I have some step, @When("menu is opened"). Menu button is in the header of the page and thus is displayed on all pages in application flow. And I need to call it several times during test from different pages. So, I need to re-use the same step "menu is opened" in several different classes. 

How can I do that? It is not allowed to create Common definition classes and extend others definition classes from them. It is not allowed to have duplicated steps across different definition classes. And I don't want to rename steps according to classes that are calling thise steps like (menu is opened from Product selection page", "menu is opened from product type page". It is copiing of the same code.

Are there any elegant ways to do that?

Thanks! 

[Koen Prins]

Sorry, why is it not "allowed"? Who will arrest you?

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[Anoop Halder]

Hi oleg manzhos ,

You cannot create the duplicate step-definition for the same step, but you are open to use that step multiple times on your another scenarios of same or any other feature file.

Just write the step-definition for your step( @When("menu is opened") ) once and use it multiple times.

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[oleg manzhos]

Thanks for this answer. I know it. But the problem is that I need to use it in different definition classes and, as you wrote, duplication is not allowed

вторник, 29 мая 2018 г., 13:10:24 UTC+2 пользователь Anoop Halder написал:

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[oleg manzhos]

Cucumber prevents a project from running if duplicated steps are used inside different definitions. So, no one will neither arrest me, nor run my project :)

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[oleg manzhos]

I resolve my problem by creating separate definition class for menu. Now I can call it from any place of my application.

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[George Dinwiddie]

Oleg,

Have you tried pushing an openMenu() method to a page object?

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[Andrew Premdas]

Sorry chaps, isn't the OP just asking for a ways to share step definitions between features when Cuking with Java? I'm sure this is pretty straightforward but as I only Cuke with Ruby I can't provide the technical details. Could somebody do that and help out Oleg please, cheers

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[Thomas Sundberg]

Hi!

On 29 May 2018 at 15:57, Andrew Premdas <apre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry chaps, isn't the OP just asking for a ways to share step definitions
> between features when Cuking with Java? I'm sure this is pretty
> straightforward but as I only Cuke with Ruby I can't provide the technical
> details. Could somebody do that and help out Oleg please, cheers
>

I think you are right Andrew.

Sharing state will probably solve the problems Oleg is facing with
ambiguous step definitions.

The solution in the Java world is to use dependency injection, DI.
Cucumber supports many different dependency injection frameworks. I
have blog posts about three of them.

If the project doesn't use any dependency framework, PicoContainer is
rather easy to get started with.
Read more here:
http://www.thinkcode.se/blog/2017/04/01/sharing-state-between-steps-in-cucumberjvm-using-picocontainer

If the project already uses Spring, I recommend using Spring for
sharing state between steps as well. A blog post with n example is
here: http://www.thinkcode.se/blog/2017/06/24/sharing-state-between-steps-in-cucumberjvm-using-spring

Finally, if the project uses Guice:
http://www.thinkcode.se/blog/2017/08/16/sharing-state-between-steps-in-cucumberjvm-using-guice

Oleg, I hope this will help you get on the right track.

/Thomas

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[Koen Prins]

I can assert that these blogs helped me get DI working in one of my projects and solved the problem of sharing steps.

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[Anoop Halder]

Let me explain it-

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FeatureFile1.feature- ( Page 1 )

Scenario: Feature1 scenario1

@When("menu is opened")  ----------It will refer  StepDefFeature1.java- >menu_is_opened () 

Scenario: Feature1 scenario2

@When("menu is opened")   ---------- Allowed to reuse, It will refer  StepDefFeature1.java- >menu_is_opened () 

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StepDefFeature1.java-

@When("^menu is opened$")

public void menu_is_opened () {

System.out.println("Run - Step when Feature1 Scenario1 menu is opened ");

}

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FeatureFile2.feature- ( Page 2 )

Scenario: Feature2 scenario1

@When("menu is opened") -------- Allowed to reuse, it will refer the code  StepDefFeature1.java-> menu_is_opened ()

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StepDefFeature2.java-

@When("^menu is opened$") ------------- This is not allowed because it already has its method in " StepDefFeature1.java" file

public void menu_is_opened_Page2 () {

System.out.println("Run - Step when Feature1 Scenario1 menu is opened ");

}

@When("^menu is opened$") ------------- This is not allowed because it already has its method in " StepDefFeature1.java" file

public void menu_is_opened () {

System.out.println("Run - Step when Feature1 Scenario1 menu is opened ");

}

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If the code you have written in  StepDefFeature1.java file is usable for another page(where you want to reuse) as you said, you just need to put it in your scenario for that page feature file,

like I have done above-

 " FeatureFile1.feature- Scenario: Feature1 scenario2 "

 " FeatureFile2.feature- Scenario: Feature1 scenario1 "

I hope it will help..

Warm Regards,

Anoop Halder
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[George Dinwiddie]

You can also share steps WITHOUT dependency injection. The step
definitions are all available to any feature file, unless you mess up
the classpath when executing cucumber-jvm. In
https://github.com/gdinwiddie/EquineHoroscope I use DI only for making
the same step definition work two different ways (either 1. directly
through an API or 2. through a browser driver and the GUI) depending on
the need.

There must be more to this problem than has been revealed, as sharing
steps is not usually a problem.

- George

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