Using Spoon with Cucumber

Hi guys,

Today I will post about Spoon which is a framework that I’ve been learning. I hope this helps someone too, because spoon is quite new and doesn’t have too much support if you want to run with Cucumber.

Spoon is a framework to run android reports and Cucumber is a BDD framework.

• If you are using gradle, you need to open your build.gradle and add:

 classpath('com.stanfy.spoon:spoon-gradle-plugin:1.0.3') {
  exclude module: 'guava'
  }

• In your app-build.gradle:

plugin 'spoon'

dependencies{
 androidTestCompile 'com.squareup.spoon:spoon-client:1.2.0'
 androidTestCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-android:1.2.4'
 androidTestCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-picocontainer:1.2.4'
 } 

• Create Spoon task in the same file:

spoon {
 debug = true
 if (project.hasProperty('spoonFailNoConnectedDevice')) {
    failIfNoDeviceConnected = true
 }

 if (project.hasProperty('cucumberOptions')) {
    instrumentationArgs = ["cucumberOptions=" + "'${project.cucumberOptions}'"]
 }

}

• The instrumentation runner:

public class Instrumentation extends CucumberInstrumentation {
@Override
public void onStart() {
    runOnMainSync(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            Application app = (Application) getTargetContext().
getApplicationContext();
            String simpleName = Instrumentation.class.getSimpleName();

            // Unlock the device so that the tests can input keystrokes.
            ((KeyguardManager) app.getSystemService(KEYGUARD_SERVICE)) //
                .newKeyguardLock(simpleName) //
                .disableKeyguard();
            // Wake up the screen.
            ((PowerManager) app.getSystemService(POWER_SERVICE)) //
                .newWakeLock(FULL_WAKE_LOCK | ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP 
| ON_AFTER_RELEASE, simpleName) //
                .acquire();
        }
    });

    super.onStart();
}

}

• Now you can use gradle command line with spoon task and pass Cucumber arguments. Like this one:

gradle spoon -PspoonFailNoConnectedDevice -PcucumberOptions='--tags @smoke'

• Or you can use adb command line – without spoon report generation:

adb shell am instrument -w -e cucumberOptions "'--tags @smoke'" 
com.rsouza.test/com.rsouza.test.Instrumentation

• Instrument arguments

• Cucumber arguments

https://cucumber.io/docs/reference/jvm#third-party-runners

• Example: Use Cucumber and adb arguments

adb shell am instrument -w -e log true -e cucumberOptions "'--tags @debug'"
 com.rsouza.test/com.rsouza.test.Instrumentation

Thank you guys ! See you next week 🙂