continue running cucumber steps after a failure

Question

Is there any way to continue executing Cucumber Steps even when one of the steps fails. In my current setup when a step fails , cucumber skips remaining steps....I wonder if there is some way to twick cucumber runner setup..

I could comment out failing steps but its not practical when you dont know which step will fail...If i could continue with remaining step i would know complete set of failing Tests in one shot....rather than going in cycle over cycle...

Environment: Cucumber JVM , R , Java , Ibatis , Spring Framework, Maven

Solution

It is not a good idea to continue executing steps after a step failure because a step failure can leave the World with an invariant violation. A better strategy is to increase the granularity of your scenarios. Instead of writing a single scenario with several "Then" statements, use a list of examples to separately test each postconditions. Sometimes a scenario outline and list of examples can consolidate similar stories. https://docs.cucumber.io/gherkin/reference/#scenario-outline

There is some discussion about adding a feature to tag certain steps to continue after failure. https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/issues/79

Comments

[Ariejan]

"The only issue would be that, in the report, all the steps would look green but the test case looks failed." That's exactly why you don't want to do this.

[pelican]

I see this is from years ago but if you can, could you please update the broken link?

[switch201]

"because a step failure can leave the World with an invariant violation". That assumption is true but not always the case. There are many instances where I need to a check a value and just because the value is incorrect that doesn't mean the rest of the scenario can not be run.