Breaking Change With Cucumber in Version 2.1.11. Need Assistance Please.

[Warren25]

Current Version Serenity Core: 2.3.2
Current Version Serenity Cucumber: 1.9.51

Previous Version Serenity Core: 2.1.10
Previous Version Serenity Cucumber: 1.9.51

Hi John and team,

I updated my serenity core dependency to 2.3.2 and after rebuilding my project, I saw that my cucumber imports were now invalid.

From the release notes, I see there was a Cucumber update with the 2.1.11 release.

I made the necessary updates in step definition files, for example, changing lines like "import cucumber.api.java.en.Then" to "import io.cucumber.java.en.Then".

However, after making all the updates, and attempting to re-run a test in debug mode, I was met with a null pointer exception.

Is this a Cucumber error? Is there a simple fix?

[wakaleo]

You need to use serenity-cucumber6 with serenity-core 2.3.x (see https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-core/blob/master/README.md#what-is-the-latest-stable-version-i-should-use)

[Warren25]

@wakaleo

Thank you so much for the quick response. This seems like an easy fix/update indeed.

I was reading the pom file in the Cucumber 6 starter project here: https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-cucumber-starter/blob/master/pom.xml

And I was confused by line 16, <serenity.cucumber.version>2.3.4</serenity.cucumber.version>

I thought the latest release of serenity cucumber is v1.9.51, noted in this link: https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-cucumber/releases

[Warren25]

For reference:

After some moderate reading of several links, I realized I was still using Cucumber 2 with the serenity-cucumber dependency, and needed to use serenity-cucumber6 as @wakaleo mentioned in his previous comment.

With that known, I removed this line: <serenity-cucumber.version>1.9.51</serenity-cucumber.version>, replaced it with this line: <serenity.cucumber.version>2.3.4</serenity-cucumber.version>

I also removed this dependency:

net.serenity-bdd
serenity-cucumber
${serenity-cucumber.version}

And replaced with this dependency:

net.serenity-bdd
serenity-cucumber6
${serenity.cucumber.version}
test

And then finally, after attempting to run a test in de-bug mode, I ran into one final issue, apparently an IntelliJ issue, which I found the solution here: serenity-bdd/serenity-cucumber4#20

Everything is working fine now, as it was.

This issue can be closed.