IDE Support

Many popular text editors such as Visual Studio Code have support for the Gherkin syntax. Using a Java IDE with Cucumber-JVM support is recommended for the best developer experience. All the options below provide syntax-coloring and the ability to run a test without writing a single line of Java code. And in IntelliJ and Eclipse you will get the JUnit HTML report.

IntelliJ Community Edition

• refer to this video for clear instructions, skip to 3:45 if needed: Getting Started
• install only the "Cucumber for Java" plugin and this will automatically prompt you to install the "Gherkin" plugin as well which is required.
• do NOT install the Substeps IntelliJ Plugin, make sure you un-select it if you see it selected anywhere when it comes to installing a plugin.
• you will be able to right-click on a *.feature file and run it via the [Run 'Feature:'] menu option
• you will even able to select a Scenario in the editor view and right-click and run it via the [Run 'Scenario:'] menu option
• if you see warnings such as Unimplemented substep definition - refer to this ticket

IntelliJ IDEA

• the needed plugins are already installed, see above for troubleshooting

Eclipse

• install the free Cucumber-Eclipse plugin from https://cucumber.io/cucumber-eclipse/
• then you will be able to right-click within any *.feature file and [Run As -> Cucumber Feature]
• Refer to the Cucumber-Eclipse wiki for more: http://bit.ly/2mDaXeV
• If you see warnings such as Step 'xxx' does not have a matching glue code or required(..)+ loop did not match anything at input Scenario: - refer to this ticket

Visual Studio Code

• Try the Karate Plugin created by Kirk Slota
• Or you can install syntax support such as this one