Summary:
I am running some tests using Cucumber against a Spring Boot application. My Cucumber test are running fine when I execute them using "mvn test" but fails when I execute them in the "mvn verify" lifecycle.
Details:
My Cucumber runner class looks like this:
@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
features = {"src/test/resources/features/creditCardSummary.feature"},
glue = {"th.co.scb.fasteasy.step"},
plugin = {
"pretty",
"json:target/cucumber-json-report.json"
}
)
public class CreditCardRunnerTest {
}
when I execute "mvn test", I can see in the logs that the Cucumber runner is instantiated before the maven spring boot plugin instantiates the Spring Boot instance:
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T E S T S
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Running CreditCardRunnerTest
@creditcards
Feature: POST /creditcards/summary
As a user, I would like to get basic information, balance and/or last 'n' transactions of a given list of credit cards, so that I can provide the information for further operations.
...........
2016-11-13 07:29:02.704 INFO 14716 --- [ main] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 8090 (http)
2016-11-13 07:29:02.721 INFO 14716 --- [ main] t.c.s.fasteasy.step.CreditCardStepdefs : Started CreditCardStepdefs in 13.486 seconds (JVM running for 16.661)
I know that my Cucumber test is actually an integration test so I move it to run as part of the "mvn verify" lifecycle phase instead by renaming it to CucumberRunnerIT.java and configuring the pom.xml as follows:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>pre-integration-test</id>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>post-integration-test</id>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>${surefireArgLine}</argLine>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/IT.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>integration-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<argLine>${failsafeArgLine}</argLine>
<skipTests>${skip.integration.tests}</skipTests>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
When I run it as part of "verify" though, I get the following error:
2016-11-13 07:39:42.921 INFO 12244 --- [lication.main()] o.s.c.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor : Starting beans in phase 0
2016-11-13 07:39:43.094 INFO 12244 --- [lication.main()] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 8090 (http)
2016-11-13 07:39:43.099 INFO 12244 --- [lication.main()] th.co.scb.fasteasy.Application : Started Application in 10.41 seconds (JVM running for 52.053)
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.19.1:integration-test (default) @ creditcards ---
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T E S T S
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Running CreditCardRunnerIT
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.716 sec <<< FAILURE! - in CreditCardRunnerIT
initializationError(CreditCardRunnerIT) Time elapsed: 0.008 sec <<< ERROR!
cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
Results :
Tests in error:
CreditCardRunnerIT.initializationError ▒ Cucumber java.lang.ArrayStoreExceptio...
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.19.1:integration-test (integration-tests) @ creditcards ---
I noticed that because I had set maven spring-boot plugin to run during pre-integration-test, it is executed before Cucumber is initialized but I'm not sure if this is the error. I did try to configure spring-boot plugin to start the app during "integration-test" instead of "pre-integration-test" but it didn't seem to do much.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here?
