Cucumber with Spring Boot 1.4: Dependencies not injected when using @SpringBootTest and @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)

Question

I am writing a new app and trying to do BDD using cucumber and Spring Boot 1.4. Working code is as shown below:

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {
    @Bean
    MyService myService() {
        return new MyService();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

public class MyService {}

Test code is as shown below:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
public class RunFeatures {}

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = Application.class, loader = SpringApplicationContextLoader.class)
public class MyStepDef {
    @Autowired
    MyService myService;

    @Given("^Some initial condition$")
    public void appIsStarted() throws Throwable {
        if (service == null) throw new Exception("Dependency not injected!");
        System.out.println("App started");
    }

    @Then("^Nothing happens$")
    public void thereShouldBeNoException() throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("Test passed");
    }
}

Feature file is as shown below:

Feature: Test Cucumber with spring
    Scenario: First Scenario
        Given Some initial condition
        Then Nothing happens

When I run the above as is, all works well and dependency (MyService) is injected into MyStepDef with no issues.

If I replace this code:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = Application.class, loader = SpringApplicationContextLoader.class)

With the code below (New way to handle it in Spring Boot 1.4):

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest

Then the dependency (MyService) never gets injected. Am I missing something perhaps?

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. The comment from above directed me to the solution

The problematic code in cucumber-spring seems to be this github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/blob/master/spring/src/main‌​/…

After adding the annotation @ContextConfiguration the tests are working as expected.

So what i've got is the following...

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(plugin = {"json:target/cucumber.json", "pretty"}, features = "src/test/features")
public class CucumberTest {
}

@ContextConfiguration
@SpringBootTest
public abstract class StepDefs {
}

public class MyStepDefs extends StepDefs {

    @Inject
    Service service;

    @Inject
    Repository repository;

    [...]

}

I hope this helps you further