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BDD gherkin test hooks dont get triggered #4521
Description
What are you trying to achieve?
wire up bdd test hooks like const { Before, After, BeforeAll, AfterAll } = require('@cucumber/cucumber');
What do you get instead?
hooks dont get triggered
Provide test source code if related
testHooks.js content:
const { Before, After, BeforeAll, AfterAll } = require('@cucumber/cucumber');
BeforeAll(() => {
console.log('Global setup before all tests');
});
AfterAll(() => {
console.log('Global teardown after all tests');
});
Before(() => {
console.log('Running setup before each test');
});
After(() => {
console.log('Running cleanup after each test');
});Details
- CodeceptJS version: 3.6.7
- NodeJS Version: v20.11.0
- Operating System: macOS 15.0.01
- puppeteer || webdriverio || testcafe version (if related)
- Configuration file:
codecept.conf.js
gherkin: {
hooks: './codeceptjs/testHooks.js',
features: '../features/**/*.feature',
steps: '../src/steps/**/*_steps.js',
},
→ testHooks.js not even called, and lifecycle methods not triggeredquestion: how to hook up bdd hooks? - in this case I needed a BeforeAll hook as a global hook
Thanks for the guidance in advance
Best Regards
Attila
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kobenguyent commentedon Oct 21, 2024
please check this https://codecept.io/bdd/#before, hope this helps @attilagyoriid
and https://codecept.io/bdd/#advanced-gherkin
attilagyoriid commentedon Oct 22, 2024
Dear @kobenguyent
thank you very much for your answer.
The description under the link you sent suggests that these lifecycle test hook go for the specific step implementation
Question:
How can achieve a "BeforeAll" lifecycle hook running before each and every scenarios located in any step implementation file? So basically a hook running before all features
Best Regards
Attila
kobenguyent commentedon Oct 22, 2024
I'm not really understanding much the bdd implementation but I think you could achieve this by using event listeners
For example
const event = require('codeceptjs').event;
module.exports = function() {
event.dispatcher.on(event.all.before, function () {
console.log('--- I am before all --');
// your pre-requisite steps goes here
});
}
attilagyoriid commentedon Oct 22, 2024
Dear @kobenguyent thanks for the quick reply again
I would need a global life cycle hook where I can use I actor. Is there any hook like that?
Best Regards
Attila
kobenguyent commentedon Oct 22, 2024
@attilagyoriid would you mind sharing the use case where you need that for? I'm not sure I could help but that would be helpful for community