Parallel/Cross Browser Testing in Cucumber-Junit

As we all know executing our test case in parallel is always an important and integral part of any testing framework. In this blog, we are going to learn how we can execute parallel/Cross Browser Test in Cucumber-Junit Testing Framework.

There are 2 different ways in which we can execute our Cucumber test in parallel.

Ø  Maven Surefire Plugin

Ø  Cucumber JVM Parallel Plugin

In this blog, I am going to discuss the first approach since it’s pretty easy and straight forward without the need to add any additional plugin.

Please Note one important point that we need to have separate Runner file for corresponding feature file to execute our test in parallel.

In this Blog for Demo Purpose, I have created two separate feature files and their corresponding runner file. Below is how my project structure looks like

Now to execute these two feature file parallel we need to do small modification in our Sure-fire Plugin. And need to add below 2 parameter under configuration in pom.xml

<forkCount>5</forkCount>

<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>

Here Forking is a special feature that creates a separate JVM Processes. In this example, 5 JVM processes will get created. resuseForks value can be true or false and will always be reused. and include tag will contain the path of our Runner File.

Here is my Sure-fire plugin Looks like:

Now if we execute our test with the help of pom.xml we can see that our test is getting executed in parallel across 2 different browsers.

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