The implementation of a test framework is considered successful and effective, if the test framework supports test execution in multiple ways.
The tests in a Gradle Cucumber Framework can be executed as JUnit Tests, Gradle Tests and Gradle commands from Command Line.
In this tutorial, I will explain to run Gradle tests from Command Line.
To execute tests using JUnit Tests and Gradle Tests, we need to create a JUnit TestRunner.
Steps to follow
- Create a Gradle Java Project.
- Add Rest-Assured and Cucumber dependencies to the Gradle project
- Add Configuration to build.gradle
- Add Gradle Cucumber Task to build.gradle
- Create a feature file under src/test/resources
- Create the Step Definition class or Glue Code for the Test Scenario
- Run the tests from Command Line
Step 1 – Create a Gradle project
Step 2 – Add the below mention dependencies in the Gradle project in build.gradle.
plugins {
// Apply the java-library plugin to add support for Java Library
id 'java-library'
}
repositories {
// Use jcenter for resolving dependencies.
// You can declare any Maven/Ivy/file repository here.
jcenter()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
// This dependency is exported to consumers, that is to say found on their compile classpath.
api 'org.apache.commons:commons-math3:3.6.1'
// This dependency is used internally, and not exposed to consumers on their own compile classpath.
implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:29.0-jre'
// Use JUnit test framework
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.13'
testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-java:6.6.1'
testImplementation 'io.cucumber:cucumber-junit:6.6.1'
testImplementation 'io.rest-assured:rest-assured:4.3.3'
}
Step 3 – Add Configuration to build.gradle
configurations {
cucumberRuntime {
extendsFrom testImplementation
}
}
Step 4 – Add Gradle Cucumber Task to build.gradle
task cucumber() {
dependsOn assemble, testClasses
doLast {
javaexec {
main = "io.cucumber.core.cli.Main"
classpath = configurations.cucumberRuntime + sourceSets.main.output + sourceSets.test.output
args = ['--plugin', 'pretty','--glue', 'Cucumber_Gradle_Demo.definitions', 'src/test/resources']
}
}
}
task getexample() {
dependsOn assemble, compileTestJava
doLast {
javaexec {
main = "io.cucumber.core.cli.Main"
classpath = configurations.cucumberRuntime + sourceSets.main.output + sourceSets.test.output
args = ['--plugin', 'pretty', '--glue', 'Cucumber_Gradle_Demo.definitions', 'src/test/resources/features/', '--tags', '@getexample']
}
}
}
task postexample() {
dependsOn assemble, compileTestJava
doLast {
javaexec {
main = "io.cucumber.core.cli.Main"
classpath = configurations.cucumberRuntime + sourceSets.main.output + sourceSets.test.output
args = ['--plugin', 'pretty', '--glue', 'Cucumber_Gradle_Demo.definitions', 'src/test/resources/features/', '--tags', '@postexample']
}
}
}
Here, task cucumber will execute all the tests present in the project irrespective of the number of feature files and scenarios within the feature file.
Step 5 – Create a feature file under src/test/resources
I have created 2 sample feature files – API_GetExample.feature and API_PostExample.feature.
Below is the API_GetExample.feature
@getexample
Feature: Validation of get method
@GetUserDetails
Scenario Outline: Send a valid Request to get user details
Given I send a request to the URL to get user details
Then the response will return status 200 and id <id> and salary <employee_salary> and name "<employee_name>" and age <employee_age> and message "<message>"
Examples:
|id |employee_salary|employee_name |employee_age |message |
|1 |320800 |Tiger Nixon |61 |Successfully! Record has been fetched. |
@GetAllUsers
Scenario Outline: Send a valid Request to get the details of all the users
Given I send a request to the URL to get the details of all the users
Then the response will return status 200 and message "<message>"
Examples:
|message |
| Successfully! All records has been fetched. |
API_PostExample.feature
@postexample
Feature: Validation of POST method
@CreateUser
Scenario Outline: Send Request to create a user
Given I send a request to the URL to create a new user
Then the response will return status 200 and name "<employee_name>" and message "<message>"
Examples:
|employee_name |message |
|posttest |Successfully! Record has been added. |
Run Test from Command Line
1. Open the command prompt and change directory to the project location .
cd C:\Users\Vibha\Projects\Vibha_Personal\Cucumber_Gradle_Demo
2. All feature files should be in src/test/resources and create Cucumber Runner class as CucumberRunnerTest.
Note:- The Runner class name should end with Test to execute the tests from Command Line
Running all Feature files or Tests from Command Line
Below command will run all the tests present in the project. As you can see, there are 2 feature files – API_GetExample.feature contains 2 scenarios and API_PostExample.feature contains 1 scenario.
gradle cucumber
Below screenshot shows that Task : Cucumber is triggered.
Below screenshot shows that tests are executed and the status of the tests.
Running a Feature file from Command Line
To run a particular feature, create a task – postexample for that feature in the build.gradle as shown in the below example.
task postexample() {
dependsOn assemble, compileTestJava
doLast {
javaexec {
main = "io.cucumber.core.cli.Main"
classpath = configurations.cucumberRuntime + sourceSets.main.output + sourceSets.test.output
args = ['--plugin', 'pretty', '--glue', 'Cucumber_Gradle_Demo.definitions', 'src/test/resources/features/', '--tags', '@postexample']
}
}
}
Add this task as a feature tag name and the use it to run the test of that particular feature file.
@postexample
Feature: Validation of POST method
Use the below command to run the tests of API_PostExample.feature.
gradle postexample
Running Scenarios using Tags from Command Line
To execute the tests using tags, we need to add ‘–tags’, “${tags}” in build.gradle
task cucumber() {
dependsOn assemble, testClasses
doLast {
javaexec {
main = "io.cucumber.core.cli.Main"
classpath = configurations.cucumberRuntime + sourceSets.main.output + sourceSets.test.output
args = ['--plugin', 'pretty','--tags', "${tags}",'--glue', 'Cucumber_Gradle_Demo.definitions', 'src/test/resources']
}
}
}
Use the below mentioned command to run the tests tagged with tag = GetUserDetails.
gradle cucumber -P tags=@GetUserDetails
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