Running Cucumber Scripts With TestNG And Selenium

LambdaTest Selenium Automation Grid is a cloud-based scalable Selenium testing platform which enables you to run your automation scripts on 2000+ different browsers and operating systems. You can now run your Cucumber scripts with TestNG and Selenium for automating your web application over a scalable Selenium infrastructure that is running real browsers and real operating systems.

This post will help you in getting started with configuring and running your Cucumber Java automation test scripts on LambdaTest Selenium cloud platform. In this post we would be exploring:

Prerequisites and Environment Setup.
Running your first Cucumber Java test.
Running your Cucumber scripts on locally hosted web application.

Prerequisites

Visit our GitHub repository for Cucumber and TestNG for finding all the relevant code samples.

Global Dependencies

Make sure you have the latest Java installed in your system. For Windows, you can install it from their official website by clicking here.
For Linux, execute the following command in terminal.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

1	sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

For Mac, Java is installed by default on Mac OS X.
Install Maven from their official website. You could also use the below command for Homebrew.

LambdaTest Authentication Credentials

Be aware of your LambdaTest authentication credentials i.e. your LambdaTest username, access key and HubURL. You need to set them up as your environment variables. You can retrieve them from your LambdaTest automation dashboard by clicking on the key icon near the help button.

For Windows user:

set LT_USERNAME=”YOUR_USERNAME”
set LT_ACCESS_KEY=”YOUR ACCESS KEY”

For macOS/Linux user:

export LT_USERNAME=”YOUR_USERNAME”
export LT_ACCESS_KEY=”YOUR ACCESS KEY”

Environment Setup

Ensure that the necessary packages are available by running the below command.

$ cd Cucumber-TestNG-Sample

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$ cd Cucumber-TestNG-Sample
You may also want to run the command below to check for outdated dependencies. Please be sure to verify and review updates before editing your pom.xml file as they may not be compatible with your code.

$ mvn versions:display-dependency-updates

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$ mvn versions:display-dependency-updates

Running Your First Cucumber Script For TestNG and Selenium

Here is the sample feature file for Cucumber.

Feature: Add new item to ToDO list

Scenario: Lambdatest ToDO Scenario

Given user is on home Page
When select First Item
Then select second item
Then add new item
Then verify added item

Feature: Add new item to ToDO list

Scenario: Lambdatest ToDO Scenario

Given user is on home Page

When select First Item

Then select second item

Then add new item

Then verify added item

Here is the TestRunner file to automate our feature file through Selenium using TestNG.

package MyRunner;

import java.net.URL;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
import org.testng.annotations.Parameters;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.testng.CucumberFeatureWrapper;
import cucumber.api.testng.TestNGCucumberRunner;

@CucumberOptions(
        features = "src/main/java/Features",
        glue = {"stepDefinitions"},
        tags = {"~@Ignore"},
        format = {
                "pretty",
                "html:target/cucumber-reports/cucumber-pretty",
                "json:target/cucumber-reports/CucumberTestReport.json",
                "rerun:target/cucumber-reports/rerun.txt"
        },plugin = "json:target/cucumber-reports/CucumberTestReport.json")

public class TestRunner {
	
    private TestNGCucumberRunner testNGCucumberRunner;
  
    public static RemoteWebDriver connection;
    
    @BeforeClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void setUpCucumber() {
    	 testNGCucumberRunner = new TestNGCucumberRunner(this.getClass());
    }
    
    @BeforeMethod(alwaysRun = true)
    @Parameters({ "browser", "version", "platform" })
    public void setUpClass(String browser, String version, String platform) throws Exception {

    		String username = System.getenv("LT_USERNAME") == null ? "YOUR LT_USERNAME" : System.getenv("LT_USERNAME"); 
    		String accesskey = System.getenv("LT_ACCESS_KEY") == null ? "YOUR LT_ACCESS_KEY" : System.getenv("LT_ACCESS_KEY"); 

    		DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();    		
    		capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, browser);
    		capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION,version);
    		capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM, platform);
    		    		
    		capability.setCapability("build", "Your Build Name");
    		
    		capability.setCapability("network", true);
    		capability.setCapability("video", true);
    		capability.setCapability("console", true);
    		capability.setCapability("visual", true);

    		String gridURL = "https://" + username + ":" + accesskey + "@hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub";
    		System.out.println(gridURL);
    		connection = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(gridURL), capability);
    		System.out.println(capability);
    		System.out.println(connection);
}
 
    @Test(groups = "cucumber", description = "Runs Cucumber Feature", dataProvider = "features")
    public void feature(CucumberFeatureWrapper cucumberFeature) {
        testNGCucumberRunner.runCucumber(cucumberFeature.getCucumberFeature());
    }
 
    @DataProvider
    public Object[][] features() {
        return testNGCucumberRunner.provideFeatures();
    }
 
    @AfterClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void tearDownClass() throws Exception {
        testNGCucumberRunner.finish();
    }
}

package MyRunner;

import java.net.URL;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;

import org.testng.annotations.Parameters;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;

import cucumber.api.testng.CucumberFeatureWrapper;

import cucumber.api.testng.TestNGCucumberRunner;

@CucumberOptions(

features = "src/main/java/Features",

glue = {"stepDefinitions"},

tags = {"~@Ignore"},

format = {

"pretty",

"html:target/cucumber-reports/cucumber-pretty",

"json:target/cucumber-reports/CucumberTestReport.json",

"rerun:target/cucumber-reports/rerun.txt"

},plugin = "json:target/cucumber-reports/CucumberTestReport.json")

public class TestRunner {

private TestNGCucumberRunner testNGCucumberRunner;

public static RemoteWebDriver connection;

@BeforeClass(alwaysRun = true)

public void setUpCucumber() {

testNGCucumberRunner = new TestNGCucumberRunner(this.getClass());

}

@BeforeMethod(alwaysRun = true)

@Parameters({ "browser", "version", "platform" })

public void setUpClass(String browser, String version, String platform) throws Exception {

String username = System.getenv("LT_USERNAME") == null ? "YOUR LT_USERNAME" : System.getenv("LT_USERNAME");

String accesskey = System.getenv("LT_ACCESS_KEY") == null ? "YOUR LT_ACCESS_KEY" : System.getenv("LT_ACCESS_KEY");

DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();

capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, browser);

capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION,version);

capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM, platform);

capability.setCapability("build", "Your Build Name");

capability.setCapability("network", true);

capability.setCapability("video", true);

capability.setCapability("console", true);

capability.setCapability("visual", true);

String gridURL = "https://" + username + ":" + accesskey + "@hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub";

System.out.println(gridURL);

connection = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(gridURL), capability);

System.out.println(capability);

System.out.println(connection);

}

@Test(groups = "cucumber", description = "Runs Cucumber Feature", dataProvider = "features")

public void feature(CucumberFeatureWrapper cucumberFeature) {

testNGCucumberRunner.runCucumber(cucumberFeature.getCucumberFeature());

}

@DataProvider

public Object[][] features() {

return testNGCucumberRunner.provideFeatures();

}

@AfterClass(alwaysRun = true)

public void tearDownClass() throws Exception {

testNGCucumberRunner.finish();

}

Below are the step definitions.

package stepDefinitions;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;

import cucumber.api.Scenario;
import cucumber.api.java.After;
import cucumber.api.java.Before;
import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;
import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;
import cucumber.api.java.en.When;
import MyRunner.*;

public class ToDoStepDefinition extends TestRunner {

	public RemoteWebDriver driver = this.connection;

	@Before
	public void updateName(Scenario scenario) {
		driver.executeScript("lambda-name="+scenario.getName());
	}

	@Given("^user is on home Page$")
	public void user_already_on_home_page() {
		System.out.println(driver.getCapabilities());
		driver.get("https://lambdatest.github.io/sample-todo-app/");

	}

	@When("^select First Item$")
	public void select_first_item() {
		driver.findElement(By.name("li1")).click();
	}

	@Then("^select second item$")
	public void select_second_item() {
		driver.findElement(By.name("li2")).click();
	}

	@Then("^add new item$")
	public void add_new_item() {
		driver.findElement(By.id("sampletodotext")).clear();
		driver.findElement(By.id("sampletodotext")).sendKeys("Yey, Let's add it to list");
		driver.findElement(By.id("addbutton")).click();
	}

	@Then("^verify added item$")
	public void verify_added_item() {
		String item = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div/ul/li[6]/span")).getText();
		Assert.assertTrue(item.contains("Yey, Let's add it to list"));
	}

	@After
	public void close_the_browser(Scenario scenario) {
		driver.executeScript("lambda-status=" + (scenario.isFailed() ? "failed" : "passed"));
		driver.quit();
	}

}

package stepDefinitions;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

import org.testng.Assert;

import cucumber.api.Scenario;

import cucumber.api.java.After;

import cucumber.api.java.Before;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;

import cucumber.api.java.en.When;

import MyRunner.*;

public class ToDoStepDefinition extends TestRunner {

public RemoteWebDriver driver = this.connection;

@Before

public void updateName(Scenario scenario) {

driver.executeScript("lambda-name="+scenario.getName());

}

@Given("^user is on home Page$")

public void user_already_on_home_page() {

System.out.println(driver.getCapabilities());

driver.get("https://lambdatest.github.io/sample-todo-app/");

}

@When("^select First Item$")

public void select_first_item() {

driver.findElement(By.name("li1")).click();

}

@Then("^select second item$")

public void select_second_item() {

driver.findElement(By.name("li2")).click();

}

@Then("^add new item$")

public void add_new_item() {

driver.findElement(By.id("sampletodotext")).clear();

driver.findElement(By.id("sampletodotext")).sendKeys("Yey, Let's add it to list");

driver.findElement(By.id("addbutton")).click();

}

@Then("^verify added item$")

public void verify_added_item() {

String item = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div/ul/li[6]/span")).getText();

Assert.assertTrue(item.contains("Yey, Let's add it to list"));

}

@After

public void close_the_browser(Scenario scenario) {

driver.executeScript("lambda-status=" + (scenario.isFailed() ? "failed" : "passed"));

driver.quit();

}

Open your cmd/terminal and route the pointer to Cucumber-TestNG-Sample.

$ mvn test

1	$ mvn test

Testing Locally Hosted or Privately Hosted Projects

You can test your locally hosted or privately hosted projects with LambdaTest Selenium grid cloud using Lambda Tunnel app. All you would have to do is set up an SSH tunnel using Lambda Tunnel app, and pass toggle tunnel = True via desired capabilities. Lambda Tunnel establishes a secure SSH protocol based tunnel that allows you in testing your locally hosted or privately hosted pages, even before they are made live.

Refer our LambdaTest Tunnel documentation for more information.

Here’s how you can establish Lambda Tunnel.

Download latest LambdaTest Tunnel binary file and extract it.

Download:

To run your Cucumber tests for locally hosted web applications you would need to set the Tunnel Capability flag to true

 DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
         capability.setCapability("tunnel", true);

1 2	DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities(); capability.setCapability("tunnel", true);

Important Note:

Some Safari & IE browsers, doesn’t support automatic resolution of the URL string “localhost”. Therefore if you test on URLs like “http://localhost/” or “http://localhost:8080” etc, you would get an error in these browsers. A possible solution is to use “localhost.lambdatest.com” or replace the string “localhost” with machine IP address. For example if you wanted to test “http://localhost/dashboard” or, and your machine IP is 192.168.2.6 you can instead test on “http://192.168.2.6/dashboard” or “http://localhost.lambdatest.com/dashboard”.