#Given or #When annotation of cucumber is throwing errors related spring boot configuration - spring-boot

Question

I am writing cucumber BDD test cases .
All the dependencies of cucumber are included in pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>${cucumber.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>${cucumber.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
<version>${cucumber.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.trivago.rta</groupId>
<artifactId>cluecumber-report-plugin</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<version>2.3.3</version>
</dependency>
In My step definition file , i have included SprintBootTest annotation
#SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
public class AccessProfileStepDefinition {
private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AccessProfileStepDefinition.class);
// Location of input payload, which will be used to send request to api server.
private static final String root_folder = "/testdata/bdd/json_for_accessprofile/";
private final static String create_useraccessprofile_payload = root_folder + "create_access_profile_req.json";
#Autowired
private AccessProfileHttpClient httpClient;
#Given("I am cbx system user")
public void i_am_cbx_system_user() {
// Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
throw new io.cucumber.java.PendingException();
}
I get error -
when i am run my test
mvn -DAccessProfileFeatureBDDTest clean test
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to find a #SpringBootConfiguration, you need to use #ContextConfiguration or #SpringBootTest(classes=...) with your test
If i comment #Given clause in my step definition file, then i do not get the error related to #SpringBootConfiguration
Other files . is below
package com.igtb.dcp.cbxaccessprofile.bdd;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import io.cucumber.junit.Cucumber;
import io.cucumber.junit.CucumberOptions;
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#CucumberOptions(features = "src/test/resources/features/accessprofile/", plugin = {
"json:target/cucumber-report/cucumber.json", "com.igtb.dcp.cbxaccessprofile.bdd.TestInitialization" })
public class AccessProfileFeatureBDDTest {
}
accessprofile.feature has the feature and is contained in src/test/resources/features/accessprofile/ folder

Answer 1

If i comment #Given clause in my step definition file, then i do not get the error related to #SpringBootConfiguration
If you don't have a step definition in the class annotated with the context configuration Cucumber will not detect any context configuration at all and fall back to a GenericApplicationContext.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to find a
#SpringBootConfiguration, you need to use #ContextConfiguration or
#SpringBootTest(classes=...) with your test
With this error Spring is telling you that your #SpringBootTest couldn't find any configuration to build the application context from.
You either have to explicitly reference a class annotated with #SpringBootconfiguration, or make sure your #SpringBootApplication annotated class is in the same package, or add a #ContextConfiguration annotation to the AccessProfileStepDefinition.