Exceptions while running Cucumber Tests

Question

I am trying to run a script in Eclipse using Firefox driver and selenium using Cucumber Gherkin format for BDD. I am getting a lot of exceptions when I run this on Junit this is my code as follows for the Java file.

annotation.java

package annotation; 

import org.openqa.selenium.By; 
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; 
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; 

import cucumber.annotation.en.Given; 
import cucumber.annotation.en.Then; 
import cucumber.annotation.en.When; 

public class annotation { 
   WebDriver driver = null; 
   @Given("^I am on Facebook login page$") 

   public void goToFacebook() { 
      driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
      driver.navigate().to("https://www.facebook.com/"); 
   }

   @When("^I enter username as \"(.*)\"$") 
   public void enterUsername(String arg1) {   
      driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys(arg1); 
   }

   @When ("^I enter password as \"(.*)\"$") 
   public void enterPassword(String arg1) {
      driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).sendKeys(arg1);
      driver.findElement(By.id("u_0_v")).click(); 
   } 

   @Then("^Login should fail$") 
   public void checkFail() {  
      if(driver.getCurrentUrl().equalsIgnoreCase(
         "https://www.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1&lwv=110")){ 
            System.out.println("Test1 Pass"); 
      } else { 
         System.out.println("Test1 Failed"); 
      } 
      driver.close(); 
   }

   @Then("^Relogin option should be available$") 
   public void checkRelogin() { 
      if(driver.getCurrentUrl().equalsIgnoreCase(
         "https://www.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1&lwv=110")){ 
            System.out.println("Test2 Pass"); 
      } else { 
         System.out.println("Test2 Failed"); 
      } 
      driver.close(); 
   }
}

These are the exceptions that I am receiving once I execute the test

Feature: annotation

#This is how background can be used to eliminate duplicate steps
Background: [90m# annotation\outline.feature:4[0m User navigates to Facebook Given I am on Facebook login page

#Scenario with AND Scenario: [90m# annotation\outline.feature:9[0m [90mWhen [0m[90mI enter username as "[0m[90m[1mTOM[0m[90m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterUsername(String)[0m [1A [31mWhen [0m[31mI enter username as "[0m[31m[1mTOM[0m[31m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterUsername(String)[0m [31mjava.lang.NullPointerException at annotation.annotation.enterUsername(annotation.java:22) at ✽.When I enter username as "TOM"(annotation\outline.feature:10) [0m [90mAnd [0m[90mI enter password as "[0m[90m[1mJERRY[0m[90m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterPassword(String)[0m [1A [36mAnd [0m[36mI enter password as "[0m[36m[1mJERRY[0m[36m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterPassword(String)[0m [90mThen [0m[90mLogin should fail[0m [90m# annotation.checkFail()[0m [1A [36mThen [0m[36mLogin should fail[0m [90m# annotation.checkFail()[0m

#This is how background can be used to eliminate duplicate steps
Background: [90m# annotation\outline.feature:4[0m User navigates to Facebook Given I am on Facebook login page

#Scenario with BUT Scenario: [90m# annotation\outline.feature:15[0m [90mWhen [0m[90mI enter username as "[0m[90m[1mTOM[0m[90m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterUsername(String)[0m [1A [31mWhen [0m[31mI enter username as "[0m[31m[1mTOM[0m[31m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterUsername(String)[0m [31mjava.lang.NullPointerException at annotation.annotation.enterUsername(annotation.java:22) at ✽.When I enter username as "TOM"(annotation\outline.feature:16) [0m [90mAnd [0m[90mI enter password as "[0m[90m[1mJERRY[0m[90m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterPassword(String)[0m [1A [36mAnd [0m[36mI enter password as "[0m[36m[1mJERRY[0m[36m"[0m [90m# annotation.enterPassword(String)[0m [90mThen [0m[90mLogin should fail[0m [90m# annotation.checkFail()[0m [1A [36mThen [0m[36mLogin should fail[0m [90m# annotation.checkFail()[0m [90mBut [0m[90mRelogin option should be available[0m [90m# annotation.checkRelogin()[0m [1A [36mBut [0m[36mRelogin option should be available[0m [90m# annotation.checkRelogin()[0m

java.lang.NullPointerException at annotation.annotation.enterUsername(annotation.java:22) at ✽.When I enter username as "TOM"(annotation\outline.feature:10)

java.lang.NullPointerException at annotation.annotation.enterUsername(annotation.java:22) at ✽.When I enter username as "TOM"(annotation\outline.feature:16)

This is my outline.feature file

Feature: annotation 
#This is how background can be used to eliminate duplicate steps 

Background: 
   User navigates to Facebook Given 
   I am on Facebook login page 

#Scenario with AND 
Scenario: 
   When I enter username as "TOM"
   And I enter password as "JERRY" 
   Then Login should fail 

#Scenario with BUT 
Scenario: 
   When I enter username as "TOM" 
   And I enter password as "JERRY" 
   Then Login should fail 
   But Relogin option should be available

Does replacing @Given("^I am on Facebook login page$") with @Before fix the problem? — howlger

Ali Cheaito Ali Cheaito · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-18T14:04:30

"Given" should be the first keyword on the line in the Background step, like so:

Background: User navigates to Facebook  
   Given I am on Facebook login page

Exceptions while running Cucumber Tests

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