Getting error “cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: Couldn't load plugin class: com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter.”

Question

I am trying to generate Extent report for my test run using Junit cucumber ,but i am getting error

\"cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: Couldn\'t load plugin c         


        

Answer 1

After many days searching for a solution to this problem that was also happening to me, I discovered the cause (at least that worked for me). Apparently, the pluggin com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter or com.vimalselvam.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter (for cucumber-extentreports version 3.1.1+) only works with the cucumber of the info.cukes package.

info.cukes
cucumber-java    
1.2.5

To use ExtentReports with the most current cucumber versions (package io.cucumber from versions 2.X.X onwards) you need to add the cucumber-adapter plugin.

For each X version of cucumber, there is an adapter, such as for cucumber version 4.X.X the extentreports-cucumber4-adapter dependency is required.

com.aventstack
extentreports-cucumber4-adapter
1.0.7

          

And in the class Runner you should replace the plugin:

"com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter:"

by

"com.aventstack.extentreports.cucumber.adapter.ExtentCucumberAdapter:"

For an example of using cucumber 4 with extent reports follow the GitHub link I found:

https://github.com/foursyth/extentreports-cucumber4-example

For versions 2.X.X and 3.X.X follow the same principles as 4.X.X

ExtentReport settings specification link of all versions:

http://extentreports.com/documentation/

Hope this helps.