Can I use spring to autowire controller in cucumber test?

Question

I am using Cucumber to automate the testing of services and controllers in my app. In addition, I am using the Cucumber Junit runner @RunWith(Cucumber.class) in the

Answer 1

In addition to Jewel's answer above do not forget to add in your own additional spring dependencies as "cucumber-spring" artifact seems to only provided the "Glue" between Cucumber and Spring.

In my case I got Spring Injection to work in my step definitions with the following added dependency.

  org.springframework
  spring-test
  test


  org.springframework
  spring-core


  org.springframework
  spring-beans


  org.springframework
  spring-context


  org.slf4j
  slf4j-api


  org.slf4j
  jcl-over-slf4j


  ch.qos.logback
  logback-classic
  test

..... Plus the rest of the cucumber dependencies

My Step Definition:

@ContextConfiguration("/cucumber.xml")
@PropertySource("classpath*:qa-test.properties")
public class StepsDefinition {

    @Autowired
    private ServiceToInject serviceToInject;
}

CukesRunner

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber-html-report", "json:target/cucumber-json-report.json" })
public class CukesRunner {}

Cucumber.xml

applicationContext.xml

  

    
    
    
    ---- rest of my beans