serenity-bdd with cucumber feature hooks

Question

I am using Serenity-BDD with cucumber and I would like to run certain things only once per feature file. It looks like cucumber doesn't support this at the moment. I was wondering if serenity has some workaround for this.

I've also tried to use the JUnit @BeforeClass, @AfterClass hooks in the test suite class but the 2 annotations require static methods and I cannot access the serenity page objects methods at that time (there is no instance injected at that point in time).

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '17 at 15:41

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You could try setting up a static global flag which will make sure that the before method will runs only once.

Setup the feature file with a tag.

@RunOnce
Feature: Run Once

Use the following hook in your stepdefinition.

    private static boolean onceFlag = true;

    @Before(value="@RunOnce")
    public void beforeOnce(){

        if(onceFlag) {
            onceFlag = false;

            //Your code to write once per feature file

        }
    }

answered May 23 '17 at 15:41

Grasshopper

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Is this possible to implement once per each test run as global before hook. Means rune once before all feature file – Shabar May 15 '20 at 23:10
@Grasshoper Sorry what I meant was, Not only once it should run before all other feature files. I tried above, it didn't run at the beginning before all other feature files though. – Shabar May 16 '20 at 09:40
U should look at plugin sysytem. TestSourceRead event may be what u r looking for – Grasshopper May 16 '20 at 17:21
I tried that but looks like with my `serenity bdd` it has some sort of dependency issue. I followed this. https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/issues/515 and https://medium.com/@hemanthsridhar/global-hooks-in-cucumber-jvm-afc1be13e487, After that I cannot run tests due to dependency conflicts. This is my current status https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61815030/global-hooks-in-serenity-bdd – Shabar May 17 '20 at 01:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 09 '21 at 11:46

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You could try to implement net.thucydides.core.steps.StepListener interface and connect it via SPI. I described this in answer in this post

answered Apr 09 '21 at 11:46

Bogdan Pisarenko

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serenity-bdd with cucumber feature hooks

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