Anyone able to invoke cucumber tests from within a spring boot (1.4.2 and later) app

[cukes_questions]

Worked perfectly with 1.3.5. But is broken with 1.4 and later versions of spring boot because of the way the spring boot jar is structured.

Feature files and glue classes now sit under BOOT-INF/classes.

Earlier i could reference my feature files as below

classpath:com/mcb/tests
Now the above returns 'No feature files found'.

I then change it to

classpath:BOOT-INF/classes/com/mcb/tests
This works but then the glue classes cannot be found. Cucumber instructs me to implement missing steps.

Any ideas?

[Paolo Ambrosio]

On 16 Feb 2017 04:17, "cukes_questions" <malcolm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Worked perfectly with 1.3.5. But is broken with 1.4 and later versions of spring boot because of the way the spring boot jar is structured.

Feature files and glue classes now sit under BOOT-INF/classes.

I believe this is because you are putting the step definitions between the main application classes (not tests) and creating an executable jar. It seems to be by design in new Spring Boot versions, probably to stop the bad practice of importing executable jars as dependencies.

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/html/howto-build.html#howto-create-an-additional-executable-jar

This is a nonstandard way of running tests, and I'm not just talking about Cucumber. Have you considered running Cucumber scenarios as tests? (e.g. using the JUnit runner https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-java-skeleton)

Paolo

Earlier i could reference my feature files as below

classpath:com/mcb/tests
Now the above returns 'No feature files found'.

I then change it to

classpath:BOOT-INF/classes/com/mcb/tests
This works but then the glue classes cannot be found. Cucumber instructs me to implement missing steps.

Any ideas?

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[cukes_questions]

Thanks for the reply.

I am invoking cucumber.api.cli.Main.run from within my springboot jar to execute the tests. The cucumber options has the classpath to the feature file and the step class, both of which are bundled within the springboot jar.

The springboot jar is not serving as a dependent jar, I am basically invoking my cucumber tests from within it.

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[Sorin]

Maybe my experience in this example (with code) will answer your questions - I went through it recently and all was smooth:
https://tryingthings.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/cucumber-selenium-spring-boot/
HTH
S

[cukes_questions]

Thanks Sorin. I managed to get mine working by relocating the cucumber feature files and glue classes to another client jar and using properties launcher to launch the spring boot app by specifying loader.path to my client jar.