Cucumber Cookbook

Integrating Cucumber with JUnit

Until now, we have run Cucumber tests either from Eclipse or from a Terminal, but how can we use automation frameworks to work with Cucumber?

How do we integrate Cucumber with JUnit Framework? Let's take a look at this in the next section.

How to do it…

We need to create a Java class in the CucumberOptions package with an empty body and the @RunWith annotation. This is how the class should look like:

package com.CucumberOptions;

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import Cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
public class RunCukeTest {
}

How it works…

Cucumber ships with a JUnit runner, Cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber. This class tells JUnit to invoke Cucumber JUnit runner. It will search for Feature files and ...