Spring Boot Cucumber Java 8 Testing ApplicationOnReady Event - spring-boot

Question

I have a reporting application that generates a report on ApplicationReadyEvent. I am trying to write cucumber tests for it but as the application event is fired even before my feature is executed , i am not sure what is the right way to test it. Can i control the event during testing ?
#EventListener(ApplicationReadyEvent.class)
private void generateAccuracyAnalysisReport() throws IOException
{
//some Logic
}
Cucumber Classes :
#SpringBootTest
#CucumberContextConfiguration
#ActiveProfiles("junit")
public class CucumberConfiguration
{
}
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#CucumberOptions(plugin = "pretty", features = "src/test/resources/cucumber/features")
public class CucumberFullIntegrationTest
{
}
Step Definition:
public class ReportStepDefs implements En {
public ReportStepDefs() {
When("^System sends an application event to generate report$", () -> {
});
Then("^Report should be generated successfully\\.$", () -> {
});
}
}

Answer 1

If your Cucumber tests involve Spring life-cycle you can not use cucumber-spring. Rather you have to use something like Springs ApplicationContextRunner to, configure, run and verify something about your application as part of each scenario.
// Given
ApplicationContextRunner contextRunner = new ApplicationContextRunner();
// When
contextRunner.withConfiguration(AutoConfigurations.of(...);
// Then
contextRunner.run(context -> assertThat(context).... /* something */ );
// Or assert something external to the application context.
Though it sounds like your application is doing something once and then exits. If so you should be using the CommandLineRunner instead of ApplicationReadyEvent in a web application. This is testable with cucumber-spring.
#RequiredArsConstructor
public class StepDefinitions {
final MyCommandLineRunner commandLineRunner;
#When(....)
public void something() {
commandLineRunner.run("input.txt", "input2.txt");
}
#Then(....)
public void assertSomething() {
// check if report was generated
}
}