BDD gherkin test hooks dont get triggered

[attilagyoriid]

What are you trying to achieve?

wire up bdd test hooks like const { Before, After, BeforeAll, AfterAll } = require('@cucumber/cucumber');

What do you get instead?

hooks dont get triggered

Provide test source code if related

testHooks.js content:

const { Before, After, BeforeAll, AfterAll } = require('@cucumber/cucumber');


BeforeAll(() => {
console.log('Global setup before all tests');
});

AfterAll(() => {
console.log('Global teardown after all tests');
});

Before(() => {
console.log('Running setup before each test');
});

After(() => {
console.log('Running cleanup after each test');
});

Details

• CodeceptJS version: 3.6.7
• NodeJS Version: v20.11.0
• Operating System: macOS 15.0.01
• puppeteer || webdriverio || testcafe version (if related)
• Configuration file:

codecept.conf.js

gherkin: {
  hooks: './codeceptjs/testHooks.js',
  features: '../features/**/*.feature',
  steps: '../src/steps/**/*_steps.js',
},

→ testHooks.js not even called, and lifecycle methods not triggered

question: how to hook up bdd hooks? - in this case I needed a BeforeAll hook as a global hook

Thanks for the guidance in advance

Best Regards

Attila

[kobenguyent]

please check this https://codecept.io/bdd/#before, hope this helps @attilagyoriid
and https://codecept.io/bdd/#advanced-gherkin

[attilagyoriid]

Dear @kobenguyent

thank you very much for your answer.

The description under the link you sent suggests that these lifecycle test hook go for the specific step implementation

// inside step_definitions
Before((test) => {
  // perform your code
  test.retries(3); // retry test 3 times
});"

Question:

How can achieve a "BeforeAll" lifecycle hook running before each and every scenarios located in any step implementation file? So basically a hook running before all features

Best Regards

Attila

[kobenguyent]

I'm not really understanding much the bdd implementation but I think you could achieve this by using event listeners

For example

const event = require('codeceptjs').event;

module.exports = function() {
event.dispatcher.on(event.all.before, function () {
console.log('--- I am before all --');
// your pre-requisite steps goes here
});
}

[attilagyoriid]

Dear @kobenguyent thanks for the quick reply again

I would need a global life cycle hook where I can use I actor. Is there any hook like that?

Best Regards

Attila