I wrote a set of feature files for testing a custom framework and I want to allow testing of specific implementations of the interfaces of the framework. I want to run a whole lot of features with different implementations.
To do that, I have created a custom ObjectFactory and passing implementations using PicoContainer dependency injection. I added this factory to a cucumber.properties file and it works just fine. The only problem is - what if I have more than one set of implementations to test?
I can create several ObjectFactories, but how can I run the tests multiple times with different factories? Is it possible to pass ObjectFactory implementation to Runner class, using annotation or something alike? I run features with JUnit runner, and if I can have several of them with different factories, it should work, I think. However the only option to specify ObjectFactory I've found is cucumber.options file which is one for a module...
Currently it is not possible to use multiple object factories in Cucumber. As a work around you could implement a single object factory that delegates to a different object factory depending on some environment variable.
You may also want to consider using cucumber-spring instead of cucumber-pico as cucumber-spring can pick up springs context configuration annotations from step definitions. This can be done with minimal configuration if you structure your project like this:
| - runners
| | - CucumberConfigATest.java // @CucumberOptions(glue="steps", extraGlue="config.a")
| | - CucumberConfigBTest.java // @CucumberOptions(glue="steps", extraGlue="config.b")
| - steps
| | - SomeSteps.java
| | - MoreSteps.java
| - config
| | - a
| | | - StepsWithContextConfigA.java
| | - b
| | | - StepsWithContextConfigB.java