maven: run cucumber test after the deploy - maven

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I am working on The integration of Cucumber with spring boot application to test my Rest webservices.
When I run the application and then I run mvn test in the project, it works fine for me. But this is not what I need. Actually I want it to me more automated.
I want to run the test using only the command mvn clean install. but this command run directly the test without running the application so the test always fails "connection refused", this is normal because the application is not running.
My question is there a solution to run the app before running cucumber tests when I use the command mvn clean install
For that purpose I created a simple spring boot application using spring initializr (I added only web).
After that I added cucumber dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
So my pom.xml looks like this:
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
4.0.0
<groupId>cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>hellocucumber</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>hellocucumber</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.3.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
then I created a controller to test it with cucumber:
#RestController
public class VersionController {
#GetMapping(path="/version")
public String getVersion() {
return "1.0";
}
}
for cucumber config I created this class
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#CucumberOptions(features = "src/features/", plugin = "pretty")
public class HelloCucumberCucumberRunnerTest {
}
Also I created my feature file
Feature: the version can be retrieved
Scenario: client makes call to GET /version
When the client calls /version
Then the client receives status code of 200
And the client receives server version "1.0"
And steps definition class:
#RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration
#SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
public class VersionSteps{
#Autowired
RestTemplate restTemplate;
#Value("${app.url}")
String url;
ResponseEntity<String> responseEntity;
#When("^the client calls /version$")
public void the_client_calls_version() throws Throwable {
url += "/version";
this.responseEntity = restTemplate.getForEntity(url, String.class);
}
#Then("^the client receives status code of (\\d+)$")
public void the_client_receives_status_code_of(int serverStatus) throws Throwable {
assertEquals(responseEntity.getStatusCode().value(), serverStatus);
}
#Then("^the client receives server version \"([^\"]*)\"$")
public void the_client_receives_server_version(String version) throws Throwable {
assertEquals(responseEntity.getBody(), version);
}