Error while running cucumber in junit

Question

Hi i am new to cucumber java. i am trying to run a simple cucumber feature test. below are my feature file, step definition file and junit runner file. but i am not able to run the test succesfully in cucumber-java,cucumber-junit 1.1.6 version.

Feature file

Feature: Test if f1 feature is working
Scenario: valid scenario
Given input1 is "t"
When input2 is also "t"
Then result should be "pass"

Stepdefinition file

package cucumberFrameworkPractise;

import org.junit.Assert;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;
import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;
import cucumber.api.java.en.When;



public class CucumberStepDefinitionTest {
    String input1,input2,result;
@Given("input1 is \"([^\"]*)\"$")
public void input1(String input1)
{
    this.input1=input1;
}
@When("input2 is also \"([^\"]*)\"$")
public void input2(String input2)
{
    this.input2=input2;
}
@Then("result should be \"([^\"]*)\"$")
public void result(String result)
{
    this.result=result;
    Assert.fail();
}
}

Cucumber runner file

package cucumberFrameworkPractise;

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(features = "src/test/resources/cucumberFrameworkPractise", format = {
        "pretty", "html:target/cucumber-htmlreport",
"json-pretty:target/cucumber-report.json" })
public class CucumberRunner {

}

I am getting below error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.<init>(Ljava/util/List;)V
    at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptionsFactory.create(RuntimeOptionsFactory.java:24)
    at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.<init>(Cucumber.java:58)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:29)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:21)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:26)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59)
    at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:26)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.<init>(JUnit4TestReference.java:33)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestClassReference.<init>(JUnit4TestClassReference.java:25)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:48)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:452)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

POM.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>mrunal</groupId>
  <artifactId>cucumbertest</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <build>
  <plugins>
  <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.12.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>default-test</id>
            <phase>test</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>test</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
  </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.11</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.14</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.14</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.5</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

But when i am running with 1.0.14 version of the same i am able to run it successfully. whys is it so? does 1.1.6 version has some bug in it to run? TIA!!!

could you try adding cucumber-core dependency (I am using version 1.1.5) and see if it works. I have had issues not including it although documentation says it is included automatically. — Bala
Hi Bala still same error it is not working it is failing while trying to create RuntimeOptions runtimeOptions = runtimeOptionsFactory.create(); not sure why is it failing. did what you suggested. any other pointers. i still wonder why is it working in lower version 1.0.14 — Mrunal Gosar

Sakthi Sakthi · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-13T12:54:05

In Simple term, We need same jar version for cucumber-core,cucumber-java,cucumber-junit. To overcome this issue :)

Error, we are getting because of the jar files and corresponding version(not suitable for our JDK). I played with jar file - now issue is resolved. And also able to run and generate output.

My JDK version- 1.8.0_60 JARS, junit -4.12 cucumber-java-1.2.2.jar cucumber-junit-1.2.2.jar cucumber-core-1.2.2.jar gherkin-2.12.2.jar cucumber-jvm-deps-1.0.3.jar

Note: java,junit,core should be in same version. Remove unwanted cucumber jars. Debug by install only two(Java and Junit) jar files(different version) and try to resolve NoSuchMethod error.

Error while running cucumber in junit

6 Answers