[Cucumber-JVM] Defining properties value in pom for running cucumber tests

[shivi malviya]

Hi,

I am facing problem while reading property from properties file where value of property is supplied from pom.xml.

Properties file content :

cucumber.test.url  =  ${cucumber.test.url}

cucumber.test.browser = ${cucumber.test.browser}

cucumber.selenium.url = ${cucumber.selenium.url}

pom.xml content :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"

         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <parent>

        <groupId>com.hm.about</groupId>

        <artifactId>hmabout-parent</artifactId>

        <version>1.16.3-SNAPSHOT</version>

    </parent>

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <artifactId>hmabout-cucumber-test</artifactId>

    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <name>${project.groupId} - ${project.version} - ${project.artifactId}</name>

    <properties>

        <cucumber.test.url>http://acc-about.hm.com</cucumber.test.url>

        <cucumber.test.browser>Firefox</cucumber.test.browser>

        <cucumber.selenium.url>http://localhost:8888/wd/hub</cucumber.selenium.url>

    </properties>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>

            <version>1.1.4</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

            <artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>

            <version>1.1.1</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>

            <version>1.1.4</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

            <version>2.29.0</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>com.hm.joshua</groupId>

            <artifactId>hmcom-automation-core</artifactId>

            <version>1.132</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>

            <artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>

            <version>1.9</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>

            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>

            <version>1.7.5</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>

            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>

            <version>1.7.5</version>

            <scope>test</scope>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>

            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>

            <version>1.7.5</version>

            <optional>false</optional>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>

            <artifactId>commons-exec</artifactId>

            <version>1.1</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>

            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>

            <version>3.1</version>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <profiles>

        <profile>

            <id>cucumber</id>

            <properties>

                <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

                <cucumber.options>--format pretty --glue com.hm.about.stepdefs</cucumber.options>

                <cucumber.path>classpath:aboutfeatues</cucumber.path>

            </properties>

            <build>

                <plugins>

                    <plugin>

                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

                        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

                        <version>2.10</version>

                        <configuration>

                            <skipTests>true</skipTests>

                        </configuration>

                    </plugin>

                    <plugin>

                        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

                        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>

                        <version>1.2.1</version>

                        <executions>

                            <execution>

                                <phase>test</phase>

                                <goals>

                                    <goal>java</goal>

                                </goals>

                            </execution>

                        </executions>

                        <configuration>

                            <mainClass>cucumber.api.cli.Main</mainClass>

                            <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>

                            <arguments>

                                <argument>${cucumber.path}</argument>

                            </arguments>

                        </configuration>

                    </plugin>

                </plugins>

                <testResources>

                    <testResource>

                        <directory>src/test/resources</directory>

                        <filtering>true</filtering>

                    </testResource>

                </testResources>

            </build>

        </profile>

        <profile>

            <id>test</id>

            <properties>

                <cucumber.test.url>http://acc-about.hm.com</cucumber.test.url>

                <cucumber.test.browser>Firefox</cucumber.test.browser>

                <cucumber.selenium.url>http://localhost:8888/wd/hub</cucumber.selenium.url>

            </properties>

        </profile>

    </profiles>

</project>

Note : My code runs fine when I enter manual values in my property file.

Question : I have tried to place my properties in pom.xml, but it does not work. Where should I define my properties in pom.xml so that it is reflected correctly in my .properties file?

I have attached an image of my project structure as well.

Please help.

Thanks,

Shivi

[Roberto Lo Giacco]

Il giorno lunedì 10 marzo 2014 12:56:02 UTC+1, shivi malviya ha scritto:

Hi,

I am facing problem while reading property from properties file where value of property is supplied from pom.xml.

Properties file content :

cucumber.test.url  =  ${cucumber.test.url}

cucumber.test.browser = ${cucumber.test.browser}

cucumber.selenium.url = ${cucumber.selenium.url}

Why do you want to push some properties into a file to just read them a few millisecond after? Wouldn't it be better to just set the properties and read them from System properties avoiding the need to use a properties file?

In any case, the issue you are encountering is definitely not related to Cucumber-JVM but to Maven, so if you still want to go with this two step solution I suggest to post the same question to the maven support mailing list. As a suggestion I would double check the properties file you are trying to update is located within src/test/resources