What's This?

This is a small example of how to use Cucumber in a Java project (Java 21, JUnit5)

It's based on:

• Cucumber-JVM instruction
• Cucumber 10min tutorial

... and a little bit of StackOverflow and Copilot

What are my Take-Aways in General?

• 🥳 BDD as executable specs is great
• ❓ Refactoring step defs w/o IDE integration must be pita
  • Integration in VSCode is kinda helpful in these matters, though
• 👍 for cucumber-archetype Maven plugin (which I didn't use because I wasn't patient enough to read the docs beforehand ;))
• 👍 for the very readable console output when building w/ mvn
• ❓ No support for boolean parameters oob?
• 👍 You can specify your own parameter types, though

What are my IDE-Integration Take-Aways?

• The VSCode extension works well-ish and is (according to the Github repo) frequently updated
• Didn't try the Eclipse integration
  • There is a 2.0.0 snapshot updatesite that cannot be installed
  • There is a 1.0.0 build that's from 2021
  • The last official release was in 2018, apparently
  • Might try that one later as there are commits coming in