Using a deprecated version of cucumber

[jeff-shep]

Intend to use this library to migrate from protractor to testcafe for running our existing test suite. Just trying to set things up and convert one of our tests as a proof of concept, after installing the libraries as documented I get a Cannot find module 'cucumber' error. Should this package be using @cucumber/cucumber now, or am I missing something obvious? I can install cucumber as peer dependency to resolve it but this isn't a desired approach. As we get more familiar with this package, happy to contribute but just a question for now 😃

[Marketionist]

Hello @jeff-shep,

Thanks for reaching out!

This library is tested to work with Cucumber versions 5 and 6 (they are stable and continue to be maintained - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js#install). Cucumber 7 is quite new (https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#700-2020-12-21) and has a number of breaking changes, so as far as I know it's not supported by gherkin-testcafe for now.

testcafe-cucumber-steps uses gherkin-testcafe (https://www.npmjs.com/package/gherkin-testcafe - a package recommended by TestCafe team DevExpress/testcafe#1373 (comment)) to glue testcafe with cucumber together.

For the dependencies - as listed in peerDependencies of testcafe-cucumber-steps (https://github.com/Marketionist/testcafe-cucumber-steps/blob/master/package.json#L46), you will have to include 3 dependencies. To get them installed and saved to your package.json, in your project's root folder execute:

npm install [email protected] testcafe gherkin-testcafe --save-dev

I just updated the installation instructions accordingly (https://github.com/Marketionist/testcafe-cucumber-steps#installation-detailed). Please let me know if that works ok for you.

[jeff-shep]

Thanks for the clarification @Marketionist, I've got testcafe-cucumber-steps running now and really keen to migrate to predefined steps and make my life easier, thank you publishing this package!

[Marketionist]

Great, I'm happy to hear that!