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Cucumber – Environment

we will see the environment setup for Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver and Java, on Windows Machine.

Prerequisites for Environment Setup

Following are the prerequisites required to set up with −

Java

Why we need − Java is a robust programming language. Cucumber supports Java platform for the execution.

How to install −

Step1 − Download jdk and jre from the following link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Step2 − Accept license agreement.

Step3 − Install JDK and JRE.

Step4 − Set the environment variable as shown in the following screenshots.

Eclipse

Why we need − Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment.

How to install −

Step1 − Make sure JAVA is installed on your machine.

Step2 − Download Eclipse from https://eclipse.org/downloads/

Step3 − Unzip and Eclipse is installed.

Maven

Why we need − Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. It provides a common platform to perform activities like generating source code, compiling code, packaging code to a jar, etc. Later if any of the software versions gets changed, Maven provides an easy way to modify the test project accordingly.

How to install −

Step1 − Download Maven from the following link − https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Step2 − Unzip the file and remember the location.

Step3 − Create environment variable MAVEN_HOME as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 4 − Edit Path variable and include Maven as shown in the following screenshot.

Step5 − Download MAVEN plugin from Eclipse.

Step6 − Open Eclipse.

Step7 − Go to Help → Eclipse Marketplace → Search Maven → Maven Integration for Eclipse → INSTALL.

Configure Cucumber with Maven

Step 1 − Create a Maven project.

  • Go to File → New → Others → Maven → Maven Project → Next.
  • Provide group Id (group Id will identify your project uniquely across all projects).
  • Provide artifact Id (artifact Id is the name of the jar without version. You can choose any name, which is in lowercase). Click on Finish.

Step 2 − Open pom.xml.

  • Go to package explorer on the left hand side of Eclipse.
  • Expand the project CucumberTest.
  • Locate pom.xml file.
  • Right-click and select the option, open with “Text Editor”.

Step 3 − Add dependency for selenium: This will indicate Maven which Selenium jar files are to be downloaded from the central repository to the local repository.

  • Open pom.xml is in the edit mode, create dependencies tag (<dependencies></dependencies>), inside the project tag.
  • Inside the dependencies tag, create dependency tag (<dependency></dependency>).
  • Provide the following information within the dependency tag.
<dependency> 
   <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> 
   <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId> 
   <version>2.47.1</version> 
</dependency>

Step 4 − Add dependency for Cucumber-Java: This will indicate Maven, which Cucumber files are to be downloaded from the central repository to the local repository.

  • Create one more dependency tag.
  • Provide the following information within the dependency tag
<dependency> 
   <groupId>info.cukes</groupId> 
   <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId> 
   <version>1.0.2</version> 
   <scope>test</scope> 
</dependency>

Step 5 − Add dependency for Cucumber-JUnit: This will indicate Maven, which Cucumber JUnit files are to be downloaded from the central repository to the local repository.

  • Create one more dependency tag.
  • Provide the following information within the dependency tag
<dependency> 
   <groupId>info.cukes</groupId> 
   <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId> 
   <version>1.0.2</version> 
   <scope>test</scope> 
</dependency>

Step 6 − Add dependency for JUnit: This will indicate Maven, which JUnit files are to be downloaded from the central repository to the local repository.

  • Create one more dependency tag.
  • Provide the following information within the dependency tag.
<dependency> 
   <groupId>junit</groupId> 
   <artifactId>junit</artifactId> 
   <version>4.10</version> 
   <scope>test</scope> 
</dependency>

Step 7 − Verify binaries.

  • Once pom.xml is edited successfully, save it.
  • Go to Project → Clean − It will take a few minutes.

You will be able to see a Maven repository like shown in the following screenshot.

  • Create a feature file (to be covered later).
  • It a step definition file (to be covered later).
  • Create a JUnit runner to run the test (to be covered later).

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