And step not being recognised as a step in feature file

[bgibb95]

👓 What did you see?

And step not being recognised as a step in feature file.

✅ What did you expect to see?

And steps found in TypeScript file and no warning messages.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

Cucumber VS Code extension - v1.2.11
VS Code - v1.70.2
macOS Monterey - v12.5.1 (21G83)

 "devDependencies": {
    "@cypress/browserify-preprocessor": "^3.0.1",
    "@cypress/code-coverage": "^3.10.0",
    "@cypress/webpack-preprocessor": "^5.5.0",
    "@types/node": "^15.3.0",
    "cypress": "^8.6.0",
    "cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": "^4.2.0",
    "cypress-file-upload": "^5.0.8",
    "cypress-iframe": "^1.0.1",
    "typescript": "^4.1.3"
  }

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

testing/e2e/cypress/integration/change-password.feature

testing/e2e/cypress/integration/change-password/change-password.ts

📚 Any additional context?

settings.json:

"cucumber.glue": ["**/e2e/cypress/integration/**/*.ts"],
"cucumber.features": ["**/e2e/cypress/integration/**/*.feature"]

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[pillsilly]

me too , I even tried given the concrete path to test if my expression was problematic -- but same results 😢

[aslakhellesoy]

The Gherkin language has the step keywords Given, When , Then, And and But, but Cucumber only defines the methods Given, When and Then for defining step definitions.

I didn't know Cypress exposes And and But - this is a deviation from the Cucumber standard.

You should be able to rename your And step defintions to Given, When or Then (whichever they represent). They should still be matched even if your Gherkin document uses And.

We could of course add support for recognising And and But in step definitions, but I am not very keen on doing that - it would perpetuate the use of this antipattern.

I'd rather add a note in the docs that Cypress users should avoid using these keywords. Would that work for you?

[bgibb95]

Thanks for the response and explanation. I had a look at the Cucumber documentation and it seems that Cucumber does recognise And and But keywords, and also mentions them as a solution to an anti-pattern.

Cucumber Conjunction Steps

It seems that there could be value in adding support for And and But in step definitions, but I understand if we prefer not to.

[aslakhellesoy]

The And and But keywords are only recognised in Gherkin. They are not recognised in step definitions. I have submitted an issue requesting that these two keywords be removed from cypress-cucumber-preprocessor: badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#821

/cc @badeball

[aslakhellesoy]

I'm closing this as I am convinced the fix should be in cypress-cucumber-preprocessor (removing these keywords from the step definition API)