Global Hooks and Tagged Hooks in BDD cucumber

BDD Framework, HOOKs in Cucumber:

Global Hooks

Use @Before for common steps running before the actual test ,ie, precondition.

Use @After for common steps running after the actual test, ie, post condition.

@Before and @After are global hooks.

Example:

Let’s take a feature file:

Note: You can create 1 test case and parameterize with example. Three test cases are creates just to show, three different test cases are run in this.

@sprint7

Feature: Sprint7

@finance

Scenario Outline: TestCase1

#Precondition:User is on the facebook page. After execution, close the session.

    And Enter "<uid_ColumnName>" and "<pwd_ColumnName>" and click login

    Then Validate screen

Examples:

      | uid_ColumnName | pwd_ColumnName |

      | realuid1       | realpwd1       |

@humanResource

 Scenario Outline: TestCase2

#Precondition:User is on the facebook page. After execution, close the session.

    And Enter "<uid_ColumnName>" and "<pwd_ColumnName>" and click login

    Then Validate screen

Examples:

      | uid_ColumnName | pwd_ColumnName |

      | realuid2       | realpwd2       |

     

@marketing

Scenario Outline: TestCase3

#Precondition:User is on the facebook page. After execution, close the session.

    And Enter "<uid_ColumnName>" and "<pwd_ColumnName>" and click login

    Then Validate screen

Examples:

      | uid_ColumnName | pwd_ColumnName |

      | realuid3       | realpwd3      |

Step Definition:

package stepDefinition;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import cucumber.api.java.After;

import cucumber.api.java.Before;

import cucumber.api.java.en.And;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;

public class StepDefinitionClass {

      WebDriver driver;

      @Before

      public void OpenBrowserOpenfacebook() throws Throwable {

            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",

                        "C:\\Path\\chromedriver.exe");

            driver = new ChromeDriver();

            driver.manage().window().maximize();

            driver.get("https://facebook.com/");

      }

      @After

      public void Close_Session() {

            driver.quit();

      }

      @And("^Enter \"([^\"]*)\" and \"([^\"]*)\" and click login$")

      public void Enter_and_and_click_login(String userID, String password) throws Throwable {

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='email']")).sendKeys(userID);

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='pass']")).sendKeys(password);

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='submit']")).click();

      }

      @Then("^Validate screen$")

      public void Validate_screen() throws Throwable {

            System.out.println("Screenshot taken");

            Thread.sleep(5000);

      }

}

Test Runner :

package testrunner;

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)

@Cucumber.Options(

features="\\Users\\Badri\\Documents\\Selenium\\CucumberTest\\features\\featureFile.feature",

glue={"stepDefinition"},

format={"pretty"},

monochrome=true

)

public class TestRunner {

}

Tagged Hooks

Hooks for particular testcase or testcases

Feature file:

@sprint7

Feature: Sprint7

      @finance

  Scenario Outline: TestCase1

#Precondition:User is on the facebook page. After execution, close the session.

    And Enter "<uid_ColumnName>" and "<pwd_ColumnName>" and click login

    Then Validate screen

    Examples:

      | uid_ColumnName | pwd_ColumnName |

      | realuid1       | realpwd1       |

      @humanResource

  Scenario: TestCase2     #Outline should be added here to use example

#Hooks: Global Precondition:User is on the facebook page. After execution, close the session.

#Tagged Hooks:Precondition for this test case: User is on forgot pwd page

#Tagged Hooks: Click serach is post condition.

    And Enter mobile number

     

  @marketing

  Scenario Outline: TestCase3    #Outline should be added here to use example

#Precondition:User is on the facebook page. After execution, close the session.

    And Enter "<uid_ColumnName>" and "<pwd_ColumnName>" and click login

    Then Validate screen

    Examples:

      | uid_ColumnName | pwd_ColumnName |

      | realuid3       | realpwd3      |

Step Definition:

package stepDefinition;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import cucumber.api.java.After;

import cucumber.api.java.Before;

import cucumber.api.java.en.And;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;

public class StepDefinitionClass {

      WebDriver driver;

      @Before

      public void OpenBrowserOpenfacebook() throws Throwable {

            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",

                  "C:\\Users\\Badri\\Documents\\Selenium\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");

            driver = new ChromeDriver();

            driver.manage().window().maximize();

            driver.get("https://facebook.com/");

      }

      @After

      public void Close_Session() {

            driver.quit();

      }

      @Before("@humanResource")//Tagged Hooks

      public void fogotPassword(){

            driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='Forgot account?']")).click();

      }

     

      @After("@humanResource")//Tagged Hooks

      public void clickSearch() {

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Search']")).click();

      }

     

      @And("^Enter mobile number$")

      public void enterMobile() throws Throwable {

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='identify_email']")).sendKeys("123456");

      }

      @And("^Enter \"([^\"]*)\" and \"([^\"]*)\" and click login$")

      public void Enter_and_and_click_login(String userID, String password) throws Throwable {

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='email']")).sendKeys(userID);

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='pass']")).sendKeys(password);

      driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='submit']")).click();

      }

      @Then("^Validate screen$")

      public void Validate_screen() throws Throwable {

            System.out.println("Screenshot taken");

            Thread.sleep(5000);

      }

}

Test Runner:

package testrunner;

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)

@Cucumber.Options(

features="\\Users\\path\\features\\featureFile.feature",

glue={"stepDefinition"},

format={"pretty"},

monochrome=true

)

public class TestRunner {

}

We can add priority to Hooks: 

@Before(order=0)
@After(order=0)
@Before(order=1) 
@After(order=1)