Unable to run cucumber features directly through intellij run configuration

Question

I am getting this stack trace when running a very basic feature which just opens a browser, navigates to google.com and search some string.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
    org/springframework/transaction/TransactionStatus
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2902)
    at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1615)
    at cucumber.runtime.java.MethodScanner.scan(MethodScanner.java:40)
    at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaBackend.loadGlue(JavaBackend.java:86)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.<init>(Runtime.java:92)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.<init>(Runtime.java:70)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.<init>(Runtime.java:66)
    at cucumber.api.cli.Main.run(Main.java:35)
    at cucumber.api.cli.Main.main(Main.java:18)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
    org.springframework.transaction.TransactionStatus
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 11 more

Can someone tell me what is missing here?

Answer 1

For Intellij 2018.1 and i guess for early versions, the Run configuration by default gets the Glue 'cucumber.api.spring' , you should switch it for 'com.foreach.cuke'
Go to 'Edit Configurations' - 'Cucumber' - Glue: com.foreach.cuke ...

Answer 2

The below dependency is missing. Default glue cucumber.api.spring is not able to find class transaction so it throws an error. Add dependency to your pom.xml and it will solve your issue

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
</dependency>

Answer 3

You should switch The Run configuration to 'com.foreach.cuke' instead of 'cucumber.api.spring'..

Go to 'Edit Configurations' - 'Cucumber' - Glue: com.foreach.cuke ...