Creating a Feature

Cucumber tests are grouped into features. We use this name because we want them to describe the features that a user will be able to enjoy when using our program. The first thing we need to do is make a directory where we’ll store our new program along with the features we’ll be writing for it.

 
$ ​mkdir checkout
 
$ ​cd checkout

The next thing we need is to get a couple of JARs that contain the bare minimum for running Cucumber. Create a new folder to place them in:

 
$ ​mkdir jars

Download the latest versions of the following JARs from the public Maven repository[9] and copy them into the jars folder. This is enough for us to use Cucumber with Java.

• cucumber-core• cucumber-java• cucumber-jvm-deps• gherkin

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