CucumberOptions "strict" is undefined

Question

I have some manual test cases in which I don't want to define a cucumber step (whats the point as it's not going to be automated). I found I could use the option within @CucumberOptions called "strict" and set this to false so Cucumber would go over undefined steps without throwing an error. However, it seems that this option is no longer available. What should be used instead?

I am using the Serenity, so I am using the CucumberWithSerenity runner class.

Answer 1

strict has been decommissioned starting from Cucumber 7.0.0. As per this discussion if you have some WIP scenarios it is recommended to tag them appropriately and exclude from the run.

For example:

Feature: blah

  Scenario: my defined scenario

    Given defined step

  @wip
  Scenario: my undefined scenario

    Given undefined step

Then your runner would look like:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(tags = "not(@wip)")
public class Runner {
}