Working with Cucumber Hooks to Initialize and Teardown tests

In our last post we discussed working with multiple data using DataTable and Custom classes of DataTable, in this post we will discuss working with cucumber hooks and how helpful it is to initialize and teardown different test artifacts

Cucumber hooks

If you are from Specflow background, you might have noticed there are different types of hooks available like

But unfortunately in cucumber for Java we only have two hooks

• @After
• @Before

Limitation in cucumber for Java

In Specflow, you can call hooks for each and every steps, features, scenario, scenario block or whole test run, but its not possible with cucumber for Java Here is the complete video of the above discussion Thanks for reading the post and watching the video!!! Please leave your comments and let me know if there is anything I should update in this post. Thanks, Karthik KK