cucumber.options tags are ignored when running tests from Gradle

Summary

The problem is fully described in this stackoverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49919757/cucumber-2-4-0-tags-not-working-with-gradle-4-6

Feature:

Feature: Restaurant

  @dev
  Scenario: Eat cukes

    Given I have 10 cukes in my belly
    Then I eat 1 more cukes

  @pro
  Scenario: Eat mushrooms

    Given I have 10 mushrooms in my belly
    Then I eat 1 more mushrooms

Expected Behavior

./gradlew -Dcucumber.options="--tags @dev" clean test

Should only run tests with @dev tag

Current Behavior

./gradlew -Dcucumber.options="--tags @dev" clean test

Runs all tests, no matter what tag they have.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Context & Motivation

Our projects use Gradle as build tool, we can’t change to Maven in which the cucumber.options tags do work.

Your Environment

cucumber 2.4.0 Junit jupiter 5.1.1 JUnit Platform 1.1.1 Gradle 4.6/4.7 Java 1.8

[codependent]

The problem was related to the fact that Gradle forks the test execution into different JVMs, so the initial -D parameters don’t reach the tests.

I would suggest improve the Gradle documentation with the necessary configuration to bridge the JVM parameters:

build.gradle:

test { 
    systemProperty "cucumber.options", System.getProperty("cucumber.options")
}

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