The Cucumber for Java Book

Automating Cucumber

Throughout this book we’ve been running Cucumber from the command line using Maven and JUnit. Although this is very common, you may use other unit test or build frameworks. In the following sections, we’ll look at some of the most popular alternatives. Even if you choose to use another framework entirely, the examples will give you the understanding you’ll need to integrate Cucumber with your environment.

Cucumber Integration with Unit Test Frameworks

We’ve seen how to invoke Cucumber from the command line, but most of us will be using an existing framework to run our automated unit tests. Cucumber integrates with JUnit^[71] and TestNG^[72] so that we can run our scenarios using the same tooling as our unit tests. Let’s take ...