Cucumber-Eclipse 3.0

An Eclipse plugin for Cucumber Version 7.

Install the Plugin

You can install the latest release using the follwoing update site in Eclipse:

https://cucumber.github.io/cucumber-eclipse/update-site

For users who wants to keep up-to-date with the latest development version please use

https://cucumber.github.io/cucumber-eclipse/update-site/main

You are welcome to report any issue.

Install Offline

You can also download the whole site as a Zip for Offline install here:

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-eclipse/archive/refs/heads/gh-pages.zip

then you need to point Eclipse to the folder of version your are interested in.

First Steps

• After you install the Cucumber-Eclipse plugin, you can use it to run Cucumber-JVM.
• Create a new feature file from Eclipse by selecting New => File from the menu and naming it with a ".feature" suffix to bring up the Feature Editor. After typing in the Gherkin code for a test, select Run => Run to invoke Cucumber-JVM on that feature. This will also create a run configuration, which you can modify and rename by selecting Run => Run Configurarations.... Tags are not available in Cucumber-Eclipse, but you can organize your features into directories and select the Feature Path that you want the run configuration to use. You can execute run configurations from the Run => Run History menu.
• Another alternative is to use Cucumber-Eclipse for editing feature files and getting the generated step-definition stubs, but then running a Junit file with a @RunWith(cucumber.class) annotation similar to the cucumber-java-skeleton RunCukesTest.java. The @CucumberOptions most useful are

• Run the feature or all features below the directory

  features = {"featurePath/dir1", "featurePath2/dir/one_more.feature", ...}

• Run all features with the given tag

  tags = {"@tag1", "@tag2", ...}

• Use the listed formatter

  format = "progress"

• Find the step definition and hooks below the given directory

  glue = "my_feature_steps/dir"

The full option list can be found at Cucumber-Options

Build and install from source

To use the latest features, you can choose to build and install from source.

• Build the plugin using Maven (https://maven.apache.org/) mvn clean install
• Open Eclipse and navigate to Help -> Install New Software... -> Add
• Point to the update-site built in step 1 file:path_to_repo/io.cucumber.eclipse.updatesite/target/repository
• Proceed to install like any other plug-in

How soon will my ticket be fixed?

The best way to have a bug fixed or feature request implemented is to to fork the cucumber-eclipse repository and send a pull request. If the pull request is reasonable it has a good chance of making it into the next release. If you build the release yourself, even more chance!

If you don't fix the bug yourself (or pay someone to do it for you), the bug might never get fixed. If it is a serious bug, other people than you might care enough to provide a fix.

In other words, there is no guarantee that a bug or feature request gets fixed. Tickets that are more than 6 months old are likely to be closed to keep the backlog manageable.