@Before doesn't execute in java Cucumber Step

Question

I\'ve got a Cucumber Step class that i\'m attempting to initialise a page model for all scenarios. So I added a @Before annotated method :

@Before()
private void         


        

Answer 1

There is an accepted answer to this question, but I wanted to point out the comment made by Matt Watson which solved the issue for me and for which I have not seen similar advice elsewhere:

I've had a play about with some of my cucumber-jvm tests and I think I've spotted it. Your @Before method should be public rather than private

The @Before method must be public.

Answer 2

I know this issue is old, but in case somebody runs into the same problem using IntelliJ:

Check the "Glue"-Property in your Run/Debug Configuration. This is the list of paths that Glue (the autowirering-system from Cucumber) uses to find Classes to wire.
It seems like IntelliJ is generating this property, if it is not specifically defined in the the Template for "Cucumber Java"-Configs.

I don't know how it is generated, but for me the package that contains my class with the Before-Method in question did not exist. After adding it everything worked normally.

Edit:

Found out more background-info. The IntelliJ Cucumber Plugin does not use Junit oder TestNG, but his own implemented runner suite. This runner does NOT interepret the Annotation-Based configurations from Cucumber, only the ones from the Cucumber Property-File or System-Properties. The TestNG-Suite however always overwrites the Glue-Path, not matter if it was actually set or is present. The most consistent way I found was to configure it both using annotations and properties. That way you are always sure that you're config ist used (Gradle-Runner, TestNG-Runner, IntellijCucumber-Runner)

Answer 3

In my case, it has worked when I put "dryRun = false" in the Cucumber options.

Answer 4

1. Make sure you are using cucumber.annotation.Before rather than org.junit.Before. Cucumber will not process JUnit annotations. (More information in the Scenario Hooks section of this blog post.)

2. Make sure your @Before method is public, not private.

Answer 5

In my case worked the addition of a package where @Before was defined to the glue parameter:

@CucumberOptions(glue = {"cucumber.hook", "cucumber.steps"})

Answer 6

Hello I know that is an old post, but none of these solutions work for me. So I'm going to share my solution.

I created the class Hooks under the package: com.mycompany.automation.util

package com.mycompany.automation.util;

import com.mycompany.automation.rest.database.AS400DBManager;
import cucumber.api.java.After;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * @author <a href="mesaj@mycompany.com">Julian Mesa</a>
 * @version 0.1.0
 * @since 0.1.0
 */

    public class Hooks {

      @After
      public void beforeScenario() throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException {
        System.out.print("Closing connection.");
        AS400DBManager.getInstance().closeConnection();
      }

    }

and then I specified the package in the glue options in the runner:

@RunWith(CucumberWithSerenity.class)
@CucumberOptions(
    features = "src/test/resources/features",
    glue = {"com.mycompany.automation.features.steps",
        "com.mycompany.automation.util"}
)

And it worked.