cucumber.glue propertie from cucumber.properties always overwritten by default value.

[reverant]

👓 What did you see?

When setting cucumber.glue property in cucumber.properties it is always overwritten by a package of class with cucumber options annotation.

✅ What did you expect to see?

If glue is set in cucumber.properties don't overwrite it by default value.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

Cucumber 7.4.1 used with java 11.0.13

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. set glue in cucumber.properties.
2. run test

[mpkorstanje]

I'm assuming you're using JUnit 4 with cucumber-junit?

Unfortunately using the package of the runner class as the default glue path, ignoring anything else, has been a feature for a long time now. This is something that can not be changed without impacting a large amount of users.

Consider upgrading to JUnit 5 with the cucumber-junit-platform-engine. It does not have this behaviour.

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/tree/main/cucumber-junit-platform-engine

[reverant]

Ah sorry, I forgot to mention I'm using cucumber-testng version.

[mpkorstanje]

Ah, I see.

Then it is mostly the same problem. But if you are running your tests via the XML suite you can define the glue there and it will override the annotation.

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/tree/main/cucumber-testng#configure-cucumber-options-via-testng-xml

<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd" >
<suite name="Example Suite">
    <parameter name="cucumber.glue" value="com.example.glue"/>

    <test name="Vegetable garden" preserve-order="true">
        <parameter name="cucumber.features" value="classpath:com/example/features/vegetable"/>

        <classes>
            <class name="com.example.RunCucumberTests"/>
        </classes>
    </test>

    <test name="Herb garden" preserve-order="true">
        <parameter name="cucumber.features" value="classpath:com/example/features/herbs"/><classes>
            <class name="com.example.RunCucumberTests"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
</suite>