@Before doesn't execute in java Cucumber Step

Question

I've got a Cucumber Step class that i'm attempting to initialise a page model for all scenarios. So I added a @Before annotated method :

@Before()
private void beforeScenario() {
    LOGGER.info("Running before!");
    loginPage = BrowserDriver.getPageModel(LoginPage.class);
}

I've then got a bunch of steps that rely on loginPage being set. e.g.

@When("^I click the help link$")
public void I_click_the_help_link() {
    loginPage.clickHelpLink();
}

I have multiple Step classes. Both of the methods above are in the same same Step class. However loginPage is always null. The beforeScenario method is never being called. Have I completely misunderstood how @Before is meant to work? Any tips on how to get what I want to work?

Edit : I also have an @After annotated method that does get run after every scenario as expected.

Edit : Pom can be seen at : http://pastebin.com/PJ6qQRK9

Answer 1

1. Make sure you are using cucumber.annotation.Before rather than org.junit.Before. Cucumber will not process JUnit annotations. (More information in the Scenario Hooks section of this blog post.)

2. Make sure your @Before method is public, not private.

Answer 2

Hello I know that is an old post, but none of these solutions work for me. So I'm going to share my solution.

I created the class Hooks under the package: com.mycompany.automation.util

package com.mycompany.automation.util;

import com.mycompany.automation.rest.database.AS400DBManager;
import cucumber.api.java.After;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * @author <a href="[email protected]">Julian Mesa</a>
 * @version 0.1.0
 * @since 0.1.0
 */

    public class Hooks {

      @After
      public void beforeScenario() throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException {
        System.out.print("Closing connection.");
        AS400DBManager.getInstance().closeConnection();
      }

    }

and then I specified the package in the glue options in the runner:

@RunWith(CucumberWithSerenity.class)
@CucumberOptions(
    features = "src/test/resources/features",
    glue = {"com.mycompany.automation.features.steps",
        "com.mycompany.automation.util"}
)

And it worked.