In Cucumber, is it possible to programmatically get the current step being executed?

Question

Scenario: As a user, I want to login to the system
Given I am on my website
When I enter valid credentials
Then I am taken to the home page

The sce

Answer 1

I think the CucumberWithSerenity register a Listener which stores the current Step Name.

Try this in your Test-Runner:

//import net.serenitybdd.cucumber.CucumberWithSerenity;
@RunWith(CucumberWithSerenity.class)
@CucumberOptions(...

And then in in your Step:

//import net.thucydides.core.model.TestStep;
//import net.thucydides.core.steps.StepEventBus;
if (!StepEventBus.getEventBus().isBaseStepListenerRegistered()) {
    return "Unknown"; // CucumberWithSerenity is required.
} 
String currentStepDescr = StepEventBus.getEventBus().getCurrentStep()
    .transform(TestStep::getDescription)
    .get();

Dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
    <artifactId>serenity-core</artifactId>
    <version>${serenity.version}</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

Are you asking if it is possible to get some logging that indicates that the step When I enter valid credentials is executed?

If so, the answer is yes.

Cucumber as such doesn't have a notion of logging so you would have to add your own favorite logging framework. Since Cucumber doesn't know about logging through your favorite log framework, you will have to add a log statement in each step you implement in Java.

I have never seen the need for logging myself. The execution log from Maven, or whatever build tool you are using, have been sufficient for me for a long time.

The reports include the steps executed so that case is covered.

Answer 3

We solved this problem by wrapping the entire step as a parameter into the Step Definition. In other words, the step

Given I am on my website

translates into

'Given I am on my website'

And the step definition will actually accept a string parameter that will correspond to the step

    @And("(.*)") //plus something specific to map step
    public void Initialization(String step) throws Exception {
            //do something with step
    }

Answer 4

you could add a step like

When I log in with the user 'user' and the password 'password'

and repeat this step whenever you need a login

You have to put the class containing the step definition in a package used by every Runner that will need the login.

Answer 5

Grabbing the annotation using self-reflection seems more straightforward to me:

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

@When("^User enters username and password$")
public void userEntersUsernameAndPassword() throws Throwable{
    Method callingMethod = new Object() {} .getClass() .getEnclosingMethod();
    Annotation  myAnnotation = callingMethod.getAnnotations()[0];   
    System.out.println("myAnnotation=" + myAnnotation);

Results in:

myAnnotation=@cucumber.api.java.en.Given(timeout=0, value=^User is in portal page$)