InitializationError while running Cucumber JUnit T

Question

package cucumber;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        format={"pretty"},
        features= "src/features/"
        )
public class cucumberRunner {

}

Using:

• cucumber-core-1.2.4
• cucumber-java-1.2.4
• cucumber-junit-1.2.4
• junit-4.12
• Eclipse Mars.1
• java 8

Error Trace:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/Element at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Unknown Source) at cucumber.runtime.java.MethodScanner.scan(MethodScanner.java:40) at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaBackend.loadGlue(JavaBackend.java:86) at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.(Runtime.java:91) at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.(Runtime.java:69) at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.(Runtime.java:65) at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.createRuntime(Cucumber.java:78) at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.(Cucumber.java:58) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:104) at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:86) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59) at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:26) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59) at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:33) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createUnfilteredTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:84) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:70) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:43) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:444) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:675) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:382) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:192) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.dom4j.Element at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ... 28 more

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

The problem is that your class is located in the package 'cucumber'. Either rename the package or move your step-definitions and other glue-code to a sub-package like 'cucumber.steps' and restrict the lookup of glue-code to this package:

package cucumber;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

 @RunWith(Cucumber.class)
 @CucumberOptions(
    format={"pretty"},
    features= "src/features/",
    glue = "cucumber.steps")
 public class cucumberRunner {}