[Cucumber] [JVM] Best way to run from command line with Groovy glue?

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Mike Howells

2013-05-11 12:10:44 UTC

We're successfully running Cucumber-JVM tests with Groovy glue in Jenkins
using the @RunWith JUnit wrapper, but we have situations where people need
to run the tests from the command line, e.g. because they're ssh logged
into a remote system and doing a bunch of other stuff on the command line.

So we want to be able to copy the jar file for the glue code onto the
remote system and run feature files from the command line, with results
shown in the classic 'pretty' coloured text format.

What's the best way to run tests from the command line with just a jar of
Groovy glue and some feature files?
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Mike Howells

2013-05-11 12:18:44 UTC

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Post by Mike Howells
We're successfully running Cucumber-JVM tests with Groovy glue in Jenkins
to run the tests from the command line, e.g. because they're ssh logged
into a remote system and doing a bunch of other stuff on the command line.
So we want to be able to copy the jar file for the glue code onto the
remote system and run feature files from the command line, with results
shown in the classic 'pretty' coloured text format.
What's the best way to run tests from the command line with just a jar of
Groovy glue and some feature files?

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Mike Howells

2013-05-11 12:20:32 UTC

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Executing the JUnit wrapper via Maven (mvn -Dtest=TestFeatures test) is one
way of course, but it's pretty slow going through the Maven phases every
time when you're iteratively trying out new scenario, and you get all that
waffle output by Maven when you really just want to see the scenario steps.

Peter DoMySEO

2013-05-13 04:41:14 UTC

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Shell script containing required environment variables would do the job
java -cp "${LIB_DIR}/*" cucumber.api.cli.Main --glue ${GLUE_CODE}
${FEATURES_DIR} --format ....

Mike Howells

2013-05-13 05:37:57 UTC

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Okay, eventually worked out that this *does *work with Groovy glue but
requires an *enormous *class path to pick up all the dependencies:

java -cp <lots-and-lots-of-jars> cucumber.api.cli.Main --glue
classpath:com.mytest.cuke.glue path/to/features

Need to package all your glue code plus all dependencies into a single jar,
e.g. using maven-shade-plugin.

aslak hellesoy

2013-05-13 12:03:17 UTC

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Post by Mike Howells
Okay, eventually worked out that this *does *work with Groovy glue but

Welcome to the JVM. That's why people use Ant/Maven/Ivy/Gradle/Buildr etc.

Post by Mike Howells
java -cp <lots-and-lots-of-jars> cucumber.api.cli.Main --glue
classpath:com.mytest.cuke.glue path/to/features
Need to package all your glue code plus all dependencies into a single
jar, e.g. using maven-shade-plugin.

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Mike Howells

2013-05-16 12:30:10 UTC

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Okay so that brings us back to the original question of how to easily run cucumber-jvm with groovy glue from the command line.

As I said earlier, we're using maven to build but it's slow and noisy (even with --quiet) if you just want to execute using ready-made glue. We're not going to use ant or gradle instead of maven.

So is creating an überjar with all dependencies the best/only way?

As
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aslak hellesoy

2013-05-16 13:09:38 UTC

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Post by Mike Howells
Okay so that brings us back to the original question of how to easily run
cucumber-jvm with groovy glue from the command line.
As I said earlier, we're using maven to build but it's slow and noisy
(even with --quiet) if you just want to execute using ready-made glue.
We're not going to use ant or gradle instead of maven.
So is creating an überjar with all dependencies the best/only way?

#/bin/sh
java -cp all:your:jars cucumber.cli.Main $@

Aslak

Post by Mike Howells
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Mike Howells

2013-05-13 05:41:26 UTC

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