Gradle Cucumber Plugin

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The gradle cucumber plugin provides the ability to run cucumber acceptance tests directly from a gradle build. The plugin utilizes the cucumber cli provided by the cucumber-jvm project and should support any of the languages utilized in cucumber-jvm.

(Currently only tested with Java, Groovy, and JRuby more coming soon!)

Contributors

• [Samuel Brown] (https://github.com/samueltbrown)
• [Matthew Lucas] (https://github.com/lucas1000001)
• [Philippe Vosges] (https://github.com/viphe)

Using the plugin in your gradle build script

You can apply the plugin using the following buildscript directly from github:

  buildscript {
      apply from: 'https://github.com/samueltbrown/gradle-cucumber-plugin/raw/master/repo/gradle-cucumber-plugin/gradle-cucumber-plugin/0.3/cucumberinit.gradle'
  }

Currently the version is set at 0.3 in the link but this can be updated the latest version as it becomes available. Once the plugin has been applied, the project dependencies need to be updated with the archive path to your jar file as well as the cucumber-jvm jar file needed for your language. Below 'groovy' is the chosen language.

  dependencies {

  	cucumberRuntime files("${jar.archivePath}"),
                    'info.cukes:cucumber-groovy:1.1.5'

  }

Available Tasks

Currently the plugin only supports one task to run your cucumber tests:

  >gradle cucumber

Cucumber Task Configuration

The cucumber task has several configurable properties:

• formats: A list of output formats. (Defaults to pretty)
• glueDirs: A list of directories where stepdefs and supporting code are located (Defaults to src/test/java)
• featureDirs: A list of directories where feature files are located.(Defaults to src/test/resources)
• monochrome: A boolean value indicating if console output should be one color. (Defaults to false)
• strict: A boolean value indicating whether scenarios should be evaluated strictly. (Defaults to false)
• dryRun: A boolean value indicating whether scenarios should be run as a dry run. (Defaults to false)

Example task configuration

cucumber {
    formats = ['pretty','json:build/cucumber.json','junit:build/cucumber.xml']
    glueDirs = ['src/test/resources/env',
                'src/test/resources/support',
                'src/test/resources/step_definitions']
    featureDirs = ['src/test/resources/features']
    monochrome = false
    strict = false
    dryRun = false
}

Coming Soon

• Use of tags
• Automatic dependency retrieval and default glue dirs for each jvm language
• Simplified task configuration
• Command-line arguments to override task configuration