It is easy to install Cucumber Eclipse Plugin, as it comes as a plugin for Eclipse IDE. For that first we need to install the pre-requisites mentioned below:Įclipse: How to set up Eclipse? Install Cucumber Eclipse Plugin That means that we are going to work on Eclipse IDE for this tutorial.

PreRequisitesĪs its name suggests Cucumber Eclipse Plugin, is a plugin for Cucumber that works with Eclipse. We will talk about it later, but as of now please go ahead and install this plugin.

It also enables the run of the feature file independently, without the help of JUnit. It highlights all the main syntax in the feature file which makes it more readable and clear. Note: None of the keyword in feature file is highlighted, all the text is plain.Ĭucumber Eclipse Plugin helps eclipse to understand the basic Gherkin syntax and it works like a syntax highlighter. At the start when you write the feature file for the cucumber test, the code for the feature file looks like this: Even this is not a mandatory plugin but it is quite handy. First, do not get confused with this Cucumber Eclipse Plugin as it is not the main cucumber plugin for running the test as BDD.

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