Adding Hooks to Cucumber code

After finding out how to run a few selective Features, the next great thing is running some code before or after test Scenarios. These are very basic and desired Features for Test Automation Frameworks. Examples of this could be initializing the browser before the execution starts and closing the browser after the execution is complete. So how do we do this in Cucumber? Let's take a look at this in this recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to update the home_page.feature file to the one shown as follows:

Feature: Home Page

  Background: flow till home page
    Given user is on Application home page

  @sanity @wip
  Scenario: Home Page Default content
    Then user gets a GitHub Bootcamp section

  @regression @wip
  Scenario: GitHub Bootcamp Section
    When user focuses on GitHub Bootcamp Section
    Then user gets an option to setup git

How to do it…

1. In the automation package, create one java class Hooks.java and put the following...