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Timeout setup for Serenity BDD or Cucumber BDD framework?

I am writing some BDD automation test using Cucumber in combination with Serenity framework. And I need some timeout mechanism in my BDD test so that if a Cucumber scenario or a Step in Serenity is taking too long, it will time out and test will fail.

I found some information in the link below: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cukes/QaPvVMnqDvE

So for Cucumber, it seems the following setup in Step Definition should do the work:

@When(value="^I request web authentication$", timeout=1000) 
public myfunc(){
}

For Serenity, I did not found any setting for timeout, but I guess it's just that I have not found it yet.

However, when I tried the timeout=xxx for Cucumber, it does not seem to work. Even though myfunc() hangs for a long time in my test, the test is not stopped, just hanging.

Anyone knows if there are additional setups for this timeout=xxx to work?

Also is Serenity having any similar timeout mechanism of its own to be used?

Finally I am using maven clean install to drive the test, maybe I am missing some maven setup for this to work?

Any hint will be very appreciated.

Solution

  • Timeout for Serenity can be handled by the following properties:

    1. webdriver.timeouts.implicitlywait
    2. webdriver.wait.for.timeout
    3. serenity.timeout

    You can also get more information about Serenity timeouts in

    http://thucydides.info/docs/serenity-staging/#_working_with_timeouts https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-documentation/blob/master/src/asciidoc/system-props.adoc