cucumber-playwright

Testing & Quality

Cucumber BDD with Playwright policies. Use when writing Gherkin scenarios with Playwright step definitions. Do NOT use for Cypress-based BDD -- use cucumber-cypress instead. Do NOT use for non-BDD Playwright tests.

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Cucumber + Playwright Policies

Use @cucumber/cucumber with @playwright/test for BDD E2E testing.

Project Structure

features/*.feature
step_definitions/*.steps.ts
support/
├── hooks.ts          # Browser lifecycle
├── world.ts          # Shared page context
cucumber.js

World Object (REQUIRED)

Share Playwright page across steps:

// support/world.ts
import { setWorldConstructor, World } from '@cucumber/cucumber'
import { BrowserContext, Page } from '@playwright/test'

export class PlaywrightWorld extends World {
  context!: BrowserContext
  page!: Page
}

setWorldConstructor(PlaywrightWorld)

Hooks for Browser Lifecycle

// support/hooks.ts
import { Before, After, BeforeAll, AfterAll } from '@cucumber/cucumber'
import { chromium, Browser } from '@playwright/test'

let browser: Browser

BeforeAll(async () => { browser = await chromium.launch() })
AfterAll(async () => { await browser.close() })

Before(async function (this: PlaywrightWorld) {
  this.context = await browser.newContext()
  this.page = await this.context.newPage()
})

After(async function (this: PlaywrightWorld) {
  await this.context.close()
})

Step Definition Policies

Use Semantic Selectors

// GOOD: Role-based
await this.page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Login' }).click()
await this.page.getByTestId('email-input').fill(email)

// BAD: CSS selectors
await this.page.click('.btn-submit')

Always Type `this` as PlaywrightWorld

Given('I am on the login page', async function (this: PlaywrightWorld) {
  await this.page.goto('/login')
})

Use Playwright Assertions

import { expect } from '@playwright/test'

await expect(this.page).toHaveURL('/dashboard')
await expect(this.page.getByText(message)).toBeVisible()

Commands

npx cucumber-js
npx cucumber-js --tags "@smoke"
npx cucumber-js features/login.feature

Configuration

For setup details, use context7 to query @cucumber/cucumber documentation.