Tutorial 18 – Execute feature file in Cypress Cucumber
What you will Learn :
Execute and Run a feature file in powershell
Execute and Run a feature file in cmd mode
Execute/Run a feature file in powershell
In the previous tutorial, we had created a feature file. In this section, we will see how to execute and run the feature file.
Right click the feature file and click ‘Copy Relative Path’
Now, copy the entire command mentioned below:
node_modules\.bin\cypress run --spec cypress\integration\examples\CucumberBDD\E2E.feature --headed --no-exit --browser chrome
Note 1:
--no-exit ensures that the Test runner does not close once the Test execution is complete. Thus the browser will not close after the Test is over
Note 2:
By default, the feature file runs in headless mode (you won’t be able to see the execution while the Test is running). To see the Test running, we use --headed mode.
Open a new terminal (by default, powershell terminal) and paste the command, see below 
Hit Enter, you would see Test getting executed.
Note:
When you are running cucumber feature file for the first time, it might take sometime for the Test runner to launch
See below. At the left hand side, you would see all the Gherkin syntaxes.
It is now very easy for the client to understand the steps being executed in a feature file.
Once the Test is over, the below would get displayed as output
Below, we execute the same command, but this time, without --no-exit. In this case, the browser closes once the Test is over. Below is the o/p that would be seen once the Test is over
Execute/Run a feature file in command mode
See below, by default, you see powershell mode
In the visual studio, Press Ctrl + Shift + P. This would open up all the commands
Type shell in the displayed text box to filter the list
Select “Terminal: Select Default Shell”
See below, you will be prompted to select your preferred terminal shell (command, powershell, bash)
Select ‘Command Prompt C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe’
Terminal > New Terminal
Now click the dropdown, you would see ‘cmd’ as well
Select cmd from dropdown
Now execute the same command that we executed in powershell.
node_modules\.bin\cypress run --spec cypress\integration\examples\CucumberBDD\E2E.feature --headed --no-exit --browser chrome
Run, the Test runner launches and the Test gets executed, see below
Thank you for reading!