Using Cucumber.js with Intern

[winko]

Hi!
Is it possible to use Cucumber.js ( https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js ) together with intern? I would like to write my functional tests as features in pure Gherkin Syntax. What I have to do if I want to use Cucumber.js?
Regards!

[csnover]

Is this an enhancement request, or are you asking for support? If you are asking for support, please read information on getting support. If this is an enhancement request I will schedule it into the milestone schedule.

[csnover]

I’m treating this as an enhancement request. We’ll add a Cucumber interface for 1.4.

[diegopamio]

It looks like it wasn't included in 1.4, am I right?

[jason0x43]

You are correct. It's been pushed back a couple of releases.

[deonjo]

This would be incredibly helpful and a well used feature if implemented.

[jason0x43]

I added basic support for Cucumber in the cucumber branch. I created an intern-cucumber-example test project if anyone wants to try it out.

[deonjo]

Hi jason0x43, how do I run the inter-cucumber-example tests?
I tried running both:
intern-runner config=tests/intern
intern-client config=tests/intern

and came across the error:
Error: Failed to load module intern/lib/interfaces/cucumber from /Users/bwang/.virtualenvs/env/lib/node_modules/intern/lib/interfaces/cucumber.js (parent: intern/lib/interfaces/cucumber!16!*)
at /Users/bwang/.virtualenvs/env/lib/node_modules/intern/node_modules/dojo/dojo.js:757:12
at fs.js:207:20
at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)

[jason0x43]

You should be able to clone that project, run npm install, then run ./node_modules/.bin/intern-client config=tests/intern (intern-runner also works).

[jason0x43]

You need to be using the intern dependency specified in the project's package.json, which is what you get when you run npm install. A global install of intern won't work (unless you've globally installed the cucumber branch).

[deonjo]

Hi Jason,
The code that you wrote as an example is really good. Pretty thorough. I just had a couple of comments and notes:

1. (just a friendly watch out) I think, you included your sauce lab key in the example. you might want to regenerate it
2. Was trying to run the example functional tests. They all seem to halt on "Then". I would comment out the "Then" and the tests would run, but when I put them back in they would halt. The test would not terminate.
3. A question about the architecture. How would I go about implementing a global steps/functional file that several feature files would inherit steps from?

[jason0x43]

1. The sauce key in Intern's .travis.yml (if that's the one you mean) file is there intentionally.
2. My bad -- I hadn't pushed my latest update to the cucumber branch, and it was missing a function.
3. I added an example of how support code can be shared between test modules to the example repo.