Cucumber-Eclipse

Eclipse plugin for Cucumber.

Installation and further information

Please head over to the plugin website for more information.

After you install the Cucumber-Eclipse plugin, you can use it to run Cucumber-JVM. To do this, you will need to install all the libraries you want to use for Cucumber-JVM into your Eclipse project's build-path libraries. The likely candidates and their locations are in the download target at the cucumber-java-skeleton example at GitHub.

Create a new feature file by selecting New => File from the menu and naming it with a ".feature" suffix to bring up the Feature Editor. After typing in the Gherkin code for a test, select Run => Run to invoke Cucumber-JVM on that feature. This will also create a run configuration, which you can modify and rename by selecting Run => Run Configurarations.... Tags are not available in Cucumber-Eclipse, but you can organize your features into directories and select the Feature Path that you want the run configuration to use. You can execute run configurations from the Run => Run History menu.

Another alternative is to use Cucumber-Eclipse for editing feature files and getting the generated step-definition stubs, but then running a Junit file with a @RunWith(cucumber.class) annotation similar to the cucumber-java-skeleton RunCukesTest.java. The @CucumberOptions most useful are

• Run the feature or all features below the directory

  features = {"featurePath/dir1", "featurePath2/dir/one_more.feature", ...}

• Run all features with the given tag

  tags = {"@tag1", "@tag2", ...}

• Use the listed formatter

  format = "progress"

• Find the step definition and hooks below the given directory

  glue = "my_feature_steps/dir"

The full option list can be found at CucumberOptions

Screenshots and Features of the plugin

Please consult the wiki for a full list for currently available features and screenshots. eg Syntax Highlighting

Latest Feature Highlights

Some major feature are integrated with the latest build :

A. Content Assistance for feature file :

• 'Content Assistance' for Eclipse editor can be activated by pressing '[Ctrl]+[Space]' keys while writing any feature file.
• Display proposals for list of Keywords.
• Display proposals for Predefined-Steps/
• Display proposals for Search based Predefined-Steps by '[Predefined-Step]:[Step-Definition(java) File]' format.

B. New Step-Definition File Wizard :

• User can create a new Step definition(java) file from Eclipse 'File' Menu :
• File > New > Other > Cucumber > Step-Definition class > Next > :

Build and install from source

To use the latest features, you can choose to build and install from source.

• Build the plugin using Maven (https://maven.apache.org/) mvn clean install
• Open Eclipse and navigate to Help -> Install New Software... -> Add
• Point to the update-site built in step 1: file:path_to_repo/cucumber.eclipse.p2updatesite/target/repository
• Proceed to install like any other plug-in