Run cucumber/gherkin-syntaxed specs with cypress.io

Please take a look at an example here:

https://github.com/TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-example

Important steps:

Installation

Install this plugin:

npm install --save-dev cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

Step definitions

Put your step definitions in cypress/support/step_definitions

Examples: cypress/support/step_definitions/google.js

/* global given */
// you can have external state, and also require things!
const url = 'https://google.com'

given('I open Google page', () => {
  cy.visit(url)
})

cypress/support/step_definitions/shared.js

/* global then */
then(`I see {string} in the title`, (title) => {
  cy.title().should('include', title)
})

Since given/when/then are on global scope please use

/* global then, when, given */

to make IDE/linter happy

We had a pattern to import those explicitly, but for some reason it was messing up the watch mode on Linux :-( (#10)

Spec/Feature files

Your feature file in cypress/integration:

Example: cypress/integration/Facebook.feature

Feature: The Facebook

  I want to open a social network page

  Scenario: Opening a social network page
    Given I open Facebook page
    Then I see "Facebook" in the title

Configuration

Add it to your plugins:

cypress/plugins/index.js

const cucumber = require('cypress-cucumber-preprocessor').default
module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('file:preprocessor', cucumber())
}

Step definition files are by default in: cypress/support/step_definitions. If you want to put them somewhere please use cosmiconfig format. For example, add to your package.json :

  "cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": {
    "step_definitions": "cypress/support/step_definitions/"
  }

Running

Run your cypress the way you would normally do :) click on a .feature file on the list of specs, and see the magic happening!

Cucumber Expressions

We use https://docs.cucumber.io/cucumber-expressions/ to parse your .feature file, please use that document as your reference

Development

Install all dependencies:

npm install

Link the package:

npm link 
npm link cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

Run tests:

npm test

Disclaimer

Please let me know if you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements.

TypeScript

You can use this package with TypeScript!

module.exports = on => {
  on('file:preprocessor', cypressTypeScriptPreprocessor)
  on('file:preprocessor', cucumber())
}

TODO

(Maybe?) Option to customize mocha template ( #3 )

Credit where it's due!

Based/inspired on great work on https://github.com/sitegeist/gherkin-testcafe , although, with this package we don't have to run cypress programmatically - with an external runner, we can use cypress as we are used to :)

Thanks to the Cypress team for the fantastic work and very exciting tool! :-)

Thanks to @fcurella for fantastic work with making the preprocessor reactive to file changes. :-)

GlynnJKW/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor