Add @BeforeAll and @AfterAll hooks

People keep asking for BeforeAll and AfterAll hooks. I haven’t had a big need for them myself, but it seems to me this would be sufficient:

public class GlobalHooks {
    private static boolean dunit = false;

    @Before
    public void beforeAll() {
        if(!dunit) {
            Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(afterAllThread);
            // do the beforeAll stuff...
            dunit = true;
        }
    }
}

If this doesn’t cut it for you, please explain in this ticket, and maybe we’ll add special support for it.

[mikquinlan]

Any movement on this issue? I’d love to have it. Of course, I’m just one person. 😉

[wjpowell]

You don’t need to do this in cucumber. Use the @BeforeClass and @AfterClass annotation from within the JUnit test used to run the cucumber tests. This has the benefit of running only for the features specified by the paths or tags options.

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@Cucumber.Options(format = {"html:target/cucumber-html-report", "json-pretty:target/cucumber-json-report.json"})
public class RunCukesTest {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setup() {
        System.out.println("Ran the before");
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void teardown() {
        System.out.println("Ran the after");
    }
}