"cucumber.features" is ignored from cucumber.properties file

Describe the bug It seems that Cucumber ignores the “cucumber.features” property defined inside the cucumber.properties file

To Reproduce I have the following light project which can be used for reproducing this issue: https://github.com/fslev/cucumber-showcase

It contains one feature file defined inside “src/test/resources/features” directory:

Feature: Calculator feature

  @happy
  Scenario: Add two numbers (happy)
    * Check 3 + 2 = 5

  @negative
  Scenario: Add two numbers (negative)
    * Check 3 + 2 != 4

Inside “src/test/resources” I have the following cucumber.properties file:

cucumber.filter.tags=not @negative
cucumber.features=src/test/resources/features

And I’ve also defined the following test class (TestNG):

public class CalculatorTest extends AbstractTestNGCucumberTests {
}

1.) Run tests via Maven command:

mvn clean test

Actual:

WARNING: No features found at classpath:/io/example
[INFO] Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

2.) Add the features option on CalculatorTest class:

@CucumberOptions(features = "src/test/resources/features")
public class CalculatorTest extends AbstractTestNGCucumberTests {
}

3.) Run tests again: Actual:

[INFO] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

As you can see, now Cucumber was able to find the feature files, since I defined the path directly inside the @CucumberOptions Also, It seems that “cucumber.filter.tags” was read from cucumber.properties file, since only one test was executed. However, the “cucumber.features” is always ignored from cucumber.properties.

Reproduced issue with the following versions of Cucumber for Java: 7.0.0-RC1, 6.10.4

[mpkorstanje]

Packages are usually organized by reverse TLD. Something like com.example.projectname. So features should sit in the src/test/resources/com/example/projectname directory or a sub directory. For example see:

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-java-skeleton

[fslev]

Ok, Thanks for the feedback. I’ll close this issue now.