Trying to setup a cucumber-project in eclipse without using Maven

Question

I am new to cucumber, I am trying to configure a Java-project without using Maven, I am having the following exception. I think there is an issue with the path of a .feature file

Exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: cucumber/io/ResourceLoader
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2398)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2708)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1659)
at cucumber.runtime.Utils.hasConstructor(Utils.java:30)
at cucumber.runtime.io.ClasspathResourceLoader.instantiateSubclasses(ClasspathResourceLoader.java:55)
at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.loadBackends(Runtime.java:81)
at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.<init>(Runtime.java:61)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.<init>(Cucumber.java:59)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:31)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:24)
at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:29)
at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:24)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.<init>(JUnit4TestReference.java:33)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestClassReference.<init>(JUnit4TestClassReference.java:25)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:48)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:452)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: cucumber.io.ResourceLoader
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
... 27 more

I have also attached the image of my project setup.

Any help will be awesome.

Thanks!

Answer 1

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: cucumber/io/ResourceLoader

this exception means that the class cucumber.io.ResourceLoader is not found in the classpath of your Project. Try to add the cucumber-core.jar to the classpath of your project following this eclipse documentation .

Answer 2

It would help if you could let us know what libraries you referenced in your project. cucumber-core is referenced by cucumber-java . So if you have cucumber-java , you don't need to have cucumber-core in your class path. Looking at your code, I notice you use @Cucumber.Options . This is deprecated in the latest release, so looks like you are not using latest release. Try using cucumber 1.1.5 jars .

Also any reason why aren't you using maven? Maven is supposed to make these things easier.