The method scenarios() is undefined for the type AbstractTestNGCucumberTests

Question

I am trying to implement parallel test execution using cucumber 4.0, but observing issues.

As per details on cucumbers website: https://cucumber.io/docs/guides/parallel-execution/#testng

I included following dependency in pom.xml: (apart from other existing dependencies for testng, etc)

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-jvm</artifactId>
            <version>4.4.0</version>
            <type>pom</type>
        </dependency>

I added following code in runner file:

    @Override
    @DataProvider(parallel = true)
    public Object[][] scenarios() {
        return super.scenarios();
    }

I am seeing following errors on above mentioned code:

The method scenarios() of type Baserunner must override or implement a supertype method.  (error on line 62)

The method scenarios() is undefined for the type AbstractTestNGCucumberTests  (error on line 63)

If my implementation looks wrong, please let me know!

has no one ever run into similar issue?? – vsingh Sep 25 '19 at 19:57 — vsingh, Sep 25 '19 at 19:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 28 '20 at 22:07

You should create the one more abstract class like AbstractTestNGCucumberParallelTest within same package and extend to @cucumberOptions annotation like below:

package runner;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;

@CucumberOptions(glue = "stepdefs", features = ".")
public class RunnerIT extends AbstractTestNGCucumberParallelTest{

}
*********************************************
package runner;

import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;

import cucumber.api.testng.AbstractTestNGCucumberTests;

public abstract class AbstractTestNGCucumberParallelTest extends AbstractTestNGCucumberTests {

    @Override
    @DataProvider(parallel = true)
    public Object[][] scenarios() {
        return super.scenarios();
    }

}

Rakesh Singh Chouhan · Answer 2 · 2020-07-29T17:50:18.360

I have created a sample project here is the link below: https://github.com/racchouhan12/SeleniumCucumber5/blob/master/src/test/java/com/testautomation/test/stepdefinitions/Runners/TestRunner.java.

The TestRunner.java extends AbstractTestNGCucumber class and it uses Cucumber 5.

Also you can match dependencies with above project so in case if any dependencies are missing you can add them.

Here are the cucumber dependencies

<cucumber.version>5.7.0</cucumber.version>

<dependency>
           <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
           <artifactId>cucumber-java8</artifactId>
           <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
       </dependency>

       <dependency>
           <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
           <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
           <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
       </dependency>

       <dependency>
           <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
           <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
           <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>

       <dependency>
           <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
           <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
           <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
       </dependency>

       <dependency>
           <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
           <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
           <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>

cucumber-java8 dependency requires only if you write lambda style step definitions. Let me know if it helps.

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The method scenarios() is undefined for the type AbstractTestNGCucumberTests

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