Is it possible to navigate from feature file to step definition in VSCode

Question

I am primarily using RubyMine for Cucumber/Ruby, and now, I'm getting my hands on VSCode, with which I'm able to run and debug test cases.

I can't find a way to navigate from feature to step definition. I tried searching for extensions and cucumber-step-mapper doesn't help.

Is there any config which enables navigation from feature to step definition?

You can by default with Webstorm. Would love to know if this is possible with Vs Code — Kellen Stuart
– Kellen Stuart, Commented May 10, 2023 at 20:38

Gaurav Khurana · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-06 13:40:37Z

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You can install Cucumber (Gherkin) Full Support extension from the VSCode Marketplace:

After install is finished, reload VSCode. Now in order to make it work for Ruby, you need to:

Press Ctrl + , to open User Settings
Scroll down to Cucumber Auto Complete
On the right side you need to modify these settings (you can find 2 examples of how to do this on the extension page). In my case, I added the following:
```
 "cucumberautocomplete.steps": [ "features/step_definitions/*.rb" ], "cucumberautocomplete.syncfeatures": "features/*feature" 
```
Reload VSCode
Open a .feature file and right click any step, you should have Go To Definition and Peek Definition working.

Hope you get it working!

edited Sep 6, 2021 at 13:40

Gaurav Khurana

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10 Comments

Daniel Fintinariu Over a year ago

Do you see the warning [cucumberautocomplete] was unable to find step for ... while hovering over a step in the feature files? If that is the case, then I think the path must be specified in a different way.

theog Over a year ago

The above did not work for me. I have [cucumberautocomplete] was unable to find step for ... error on every line. I confirmed the folders are correct.

Sam Joseph Over a year ago

sort of partially works for me - some step definitions correctly navigated to - others not ... :-/

chick3n0x07CC Over a year ago

I had some problems with the paths of features and steps. The reason was that I was skipping the creation of a .vscode/ folder mentioned in the extension docs. Just in case this can help someone like it did for me: stackoverflow.com/a/61610271/7012085

Sasha Bond Over a year ago

i set up my feature files to be inside cypress/integration/, say cypress/integration/google.feature - having that js file would be in cypress/integration/google/google.js and vscode setting for navigation is: "cucumberautocomplete.steps": [ "cypress/integration/**/*.js", ],

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Jyoti Prakash · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-02 16:56:27Z

I have a cucumber with java project and following worked for me:

 "cucumberautocomplete.steps": [ "**/*Steps.java" ], "cucumberautocomplete.syncfeatures": "**/*.feature"

wedad kamal · Accepted Answer · 2024-08-28 08:06:49Z

I have cucmber with javascript with cypress and this worked with me {

 "cucumberautocomplete.steps": [ "cypress/e2e/step_definitions/*.js", ], "cucumberautocomplete.syncfeatures": "features/*feature",}

you should have the right paths from the root of your project path

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