How to share the Spring Boot context between steps in cucumber test?

[infant_coder]

Hi all,

I am working on a cucumber integration test project for spring boot. Currently I have only one feature file, and I have placed @SpringBootTest & @AutoConfigureMockMvc annotations within the stepdef file. I would like to have these annotations common for all step files. Please help me in doing this. I would much appreciate any help. Thanks.

@SpringBootTest
@AutoConfigureMockMvc

[mpkorstanje]

If you are using the latest Cucumber (v5.7.0) to make Cucumber aware of your test configuration you can annotate a configuration class on your glue path with `@CucumberContextConfiguration` and with one of the following annotations: `@ContextConfiguration`, `@ContextHierarchy` or `@BootstrapWith`. If you are using SpringBoot, you can annotate configuration class with `@SpringBootTest`

For example:

import com.example.app;

import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;

import io.cucumber.spring.CucumberContextConfiguration;

@CucumberContextConfiguration
@SpringBootTest(classes = TestConfig.class)
public class CucumberSpringConfiguration {

}

You can then `@Autowire`  components from the application context into any step definition file. No further spring configuration is needed. For example:

package com.example.app;

public class MyStepDefinitions {

   @Autowired
   private MyService myService;

   @Given("feed back is requested from my service")
   public void feed_back_is_requested(){
      myService.requestFeedBack();
   }
}

The only requirement is that both `MyStepDefinitions` and `CucumberSpringConfiguration` are both in a package that is on the glue path. So either you have configured `@CucumberOptions(glue="com.example")` explicitly or your test runner class is in the same package as your step definition (`com.example`).

You can find more information in the `cucumber-spring` module in github.
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/tree/master/spring

[sonya_m]

Thanks for helping  mpkorstanje!

Hi @infant_coder ! Is this the sort of advice you are looking for?