Error running cucumber in eclipse- Could not find or load main class cucumber.api.cli.Main

Question

I'm trying to run a maven project using Oxygen.1 a release. I have the cucumber plugin installed. But when I run the default feature file, I'm getting an error Error: Could not find or load main class cucumber.api.cli.Main

Please help!

Possible duplicate of [Error: Could not find or load main class cucumber.api.cli.Main](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28794397/error-could-not-find-or-load-main-class-cucumber-api-cli-main) — OhadR, Feb 25 '18 at 08:02
@OhadR, seems to be the same root cause but within a Gradle project whereas this is in a Maven project. — siegi, Feb 25 '18 at 08:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '18 at 08:03

I've never used Cucumber, but I guess you need to add it as a dependency to your Maven pom.xml as described in the Cucumber JVM documentation.

The Eclipse plugin adds syntax highlighting, content assists and other IDE related convenience. But you still need to tell the JVM where to find the Cucumber classes and in a Maven project this is defined by the dependencies in pom.xml.

You may rise a feature request at the Cucumber-Eclipse issue tracker to extend the plugin to allow adding the dependency to Maven projects automatically.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 17 '20 at 03:09

Add these dependencies to the pom.xml and the issue gets resolved. I was trying with the latest versions so was facing this problem. When I changed the version then it worked for me.

<dependencies>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/cucumber-java -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/cucumber-junit -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
        </dependency>


        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.masterthought/cucumber-reporting -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
            <version>3.14.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/gherkin -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
            <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
            <version>2.12.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>3.14.0</version>
        </dependency>
        
</dependencies>

Hello. Please, the next time add the explanation outside of the code. It makes it more readable. — Mario Codes, Oct 16 '20 at 09:57

Error running cucumber in eclipse- Could not find or load main class cucumber.api.cli.Main

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