CucumberOptions doesn't run features

Question

After a few years of coding in Cucumber I got strange error when trying to execute the tests:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.junit.runner.Description.createSuiteDescription(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/io/Serializable;[Ljava/lang/annotation/Annotation;)Lorg/junit/runner/Description;
    at io.cucumber.junit.FeatureRunner.getDescription(FeatureRunner.java:118)
    at io.cucumber.junit.Cucumber.describeChild(Cucumber.java:191)
    at io.cucumber.junit.Cucumber.describeChild(Cucumber.java:89)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.getDescription(ParentRunner.java:290)
    at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.getDescription(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:79)
    at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:51)
    at com.intellij.rt.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:33)
    at com.intellij.rt.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:235)
    at com.intellij.rt.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:54)

TestRunner class:

package codelab.runners;

import io.cucumber.junit.Cucumber;
import io.cucumber.junit.CucumberOptions;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        glue = {"codelab.step", "codelab.page", "codelab.hooks", "codelab.helpers", "codelab.api"},
        features = "src/test/resources/features/",
        plugin = {"json:target/cucumber.json", "pretty"})
public class TestRunner {
}

The error is strictly related to feature path provided in @CucumberOptions annotation. The path is correct and I have no idea why it suddenly stopped working...

POM.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>codelab</groupId>
    <artifactId>babel_guru_selenium</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <properties>
        <projectName>BabelGuru</projectName>
        <reportInputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</reportInputDirectory>
        <reportOutputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/cucumber-report-html</reportOutputDirectory>
        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>

    <build>

        <plugins>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4</version>
                <executions>

                    <execution>
                        <id>selenium</id>
                        <phase>initialize</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>install-file</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <file>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/lib/JARs/SeleniumHelper.jar</file>
                            <groupId>codelab</groupId>
                            <artifactId>SeleniumHelper</artifactId>
                            <version>1.0</version>
                            <packaging>jar</packaging>
                            <pomFile>D:/projects/quality_assurance/Engines/SeleniumHelper/pom.xml</pomFile>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>

                    <execution>
                        <id>webdriver</id>
                        <phase>initialize</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>install-file</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <file>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/lib/JARs/WebDriverFactory.jar</file>
                            <groupId>codelab</groupId>
                            <artifactId>WebDriverFactory</artifactId>
                            <version>1.0</version>
                            <packaging>jar</packaging>
                            <pomFile>D:/projects/quality_assurance/Engines/WebDriverFactory/pom.xml</pomFile>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>

                    <execution>
                        <id>restAssured</id>
                        <phase>initialize</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>install-file</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <file>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/lib/JARs/RestAssuredEngine.jar</file>
                            <groupId>codelab</groupId>
                            <artifactId>RestAssuredHelper</artifactId>
                            <version>1.0</version>
                            <packaging>jar</packaging>
                            <pomFile>D:/projects/quality_assurance/Engines/RestAssuredHelper/pom.xml</pomFile>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>

                </executions>
            </plugin>

        </plugins>

        <resources>
            <resource>
                <filtering>true</filtering>
                <directory>./src/main/resources/profiles/${build.profile.id}</directory>
            </resource>
        </resources>

    </build>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
            <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
            <version>2.8.8</version>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>codelab</groupId>
            <artifactId>RestAssuredHelper</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>codelab</groupId>
            <artifactId>SeleniumHelper</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>codelab</groupId>
            <artifactId>WebDriverFactory</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>[4.10]</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <profiles>

        <profile>
            <id>local</id>
            <properties>
                <build.profile.id>local</build.profile.id>
            </properties>
        </profile>

        <profile>
            <id>dev</id>
            <properties>
                <build.profile.id>dev</build.profile.id>
            </properties>
            <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
            </activation>
        </profile>

        <profile>
            <id>test</id>
            <properties>
                <build.profile.id>test</build.profile.id>
            </properties>
        </profile>

    </profiles>

</project>

Any help would be really appriciated. Thanks :)

Answer 1

Hmm this is a tough one. I am not really sure why are you specifying the glue path to classes like "step", "hooks", "helpers" etc. The glue path defines the package in which stepDefinitions are found. This is an example from one of my projects:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)

@CucumberOptions(  monochrome = true,
        tags = "@tags",
        features = "src/test/resources/",
        format = { "pretty","html: cucumber-html-reports",
                "json: cucumber-html-reports/cucumber.json" },
        dryRun = false,
        glue = "stepMethods" )

stepMethods being the package where my step definitions are. Maybe just try and go with this (in your scenario):

glue = "codelab"

Good luck :)