cucumber-jvm

Right now we're working on adopting Cucumber to run functional tests on our Java8/Spring app. We want our step definition files to remain as DRY as possible and as such plan on using the same step definitions in different feature files. Since we are using a selenium WebDriver to drive our tests, we need to share the same driver between step definitions. To demonstrate why having multiple drivers is an issue for us, imagine a feature file that defines two steps: one to navigate to a page, and another to assert that a line appears on that page. If both steps happen to be defined in separate

To pass variables between steps now I'm doing something like the example as follows: Feature: Demo Scenario: Create user Given User creation form management When Create user with name "TEST" Then User is created successfully Java class with steps definitions: public class CreateUserSteps { private String userName; @Given("^User creation form management$") public void User_creation_form_management() throws Throwable { // ... } @When("^Create user with name \"([^\"]*)\"$") public void Create_user_with_name(String userName) throws Throwable { //... this.userName = userName; } @Then("^User is