Why protractor cucumber is not able to locate step file with latest version of Cucumber in Protractor Cucumber framework - protractor

Question

I'm working with protractor cucumber framework and since from the long time i observed is cucumber is not able to find the spec file in the project. I have used the cucumber latest version 6.0.3 it is not able to find the spec file but same code i have run using the cucumber 1.3.3.. can any body tell me what's the difference with this versions? is there any thing i need to update for 6.0.3
Cucumber Dependency - 1.3.3
"cucumber": {
"version": "1.3.3",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/cucumber/-/cucumber-1.3.3.tgz",
"integrity": "sha1-Za+2Xy+T9y2teN8qterPFGCf7C8=",
"requires": {
"camel-case": "^3.0.0",
"cli-table": "^0.3.1",
"co": "^4.6.0",
"colors": "^1.1.2",
"commander": "^2.9.0",
"duration": "^0.2.0",
"figures": "1.7.0",
"gherkin": "^4.1.0",
"glob": "^7.0.0",
"is-generator": "^1.0.2",
"lodash": "^4.0.0",
"stack-chain": "^1.3.5",
"stacktrace-js": "^1.3.0"
}
Cucumber Dependency 6.0.3 Latest
"cucumber": {
"version": "6.0.3",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/cucumber/-/cucumber-6.0.3.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-FSx7xdAQfFjcxp/iRBAuCFSXp2iJP1tF2Q5k/a67YgHiYbnwsD9F+UNv9ZG90LFHNsNQhb+67AmVxHkp4JRDpg==",
"dev": true,
"requires": {
"assertion-error-formatter": "^3.0.0",
"bluebird": "^3.4.1",
"cli-table3": "^0.5.1",
"colors": "^1.1.2",
"commander": "^3.0.1",
"cucumber-expressions": "^8.0.1",
"cucumber-tag-expressions": "^2.0.2",
"duration": "^0.2.1",
"escape-string-regexp": "^2.0.0",
"figures": "^3.0.0",
"gherkin": "5.0.0",
"glob": "^7.1.3",
"indent-string": "^4.0.0",
"is-generator": "^1.0.2",
"is-stream": "^2.0.0",
"knuth-shuffle-seeded": "^1.0.6",
"lodash": "^4.17.14",
"mz": "^2.4.0",
"progress": "^2.0.0",
"resolve": "^1.3.3",
"serialize-error": "^4.1.0",
"stack-chain": "^2.0.0",
"stacktrace-js": "^2.0.0",
"string-argv": "^0.3.0",
"title-case": "^2.1.1",
"util-arity": "^1.0.2",
"verror": "^1.9.0"
}
StepDef
module.exports=function(){
this.Given(/^Open the browser and Load the URL$/,async function(){
await firstBrowser.get(properties.get("url1"));
browser.logger.info("Title of the window is :"+await browser.getTitle());
//screenshots.takesScreenshot("filename");
});
this.When(/^User entered the text in the search box$/,async function(){
firstBrowser.sleep(3000);
await page1.email().sendKeys(testData.Login.CM[0].Username);
browser.sleep(3000);
await page1.password().sendKeys(testData.Login.CM[0].Password);
});
}
Config File
exports.config = {
//seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
getPageTimeout: 60000,
allScriptsTimeout: 500000,
directConnect:true,
framework: 'custom',
// path relative to the current config file
frameworkPath: require.resolve('protractor-cucumber-framework'),
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'chrome'
},
ignoreUncaughtExceptions:true,
// Spec patterns are relative to this directory.
specs: [
'H:\\workspace\\Protractor_Cucumber\\src\\FeatureFiles\\Test.feature'
],
cucumberOpts: {
require: 'H:\\workspace\\Protractor_Cucumber\\src\\StepDefFiles\\*.js',
tags: false,
profile: false,
'no-source': true
},
onPrepare: function () {
browser.waitForAngularEnabled(false);
const {Given, Then, When, Before} = require('cucumber');
}
};
i didn't used any cucumber hooks in my test scripts..
What makes them to work different, can some help in this?

Answer 1

One reason is Then/When/Given usage change in cucumber 6.x, you can change few step functions to verify this.
For 1.x step function file looks like
module.exports = function () {
this.Then(/^Then the response status is (.*)$/, function (status) {
assert.equal(this.responseStatus, status)
});
this.When(//, ...)
}
For 6.x step function file looks like
const { Then, When } = require('cucumber');
Then(/^the response status is (.*)$/, function (status) {
assert.equal(this.responseStatus, status)
});
When(//,...)
Another possible reason is need to upgrade protractor-cucumber-framework version which is compatible with the cucumber#6.x