How to use FeatureTracker class of io.cucumber.core.plugin package

Looks like you are indirectly running Serenity through the junit-vintage-engine. When executed this way, parallel execution is simply not supported.

To be exact you are running your tests through Surefire -> JUnit 5 -> JUnit Vintage -> JUnit 4 -> Serenity -> Cucumber.

You'd have to wait for JUnit Vintage to support parallel execution or get rid of JUnit 5 from your depencies so Surefire can run JUnit 4 directly.

However given that you are also using Spring you may not be able to get rid of JUnit 5.

You could ask Serenity to support JUnit 5 but I suspect they will be unable too. They have never bothered to contribute the extension points they'd need upstream. Instead they have hacked their stuff into Cucumber.

Find the solution for parallel execution with cucumber 7 and serenity junit 4. Below pom.xml is tested and working to execute parallel. According to this pom.xml to execute two ways:

1. locally - add to your runner in tags tag you want to run and then execute this command mvn clean verify

2. mvn clean verify -Dtags="@yourtagHere"

Working pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

4.0.0

<groupId>com.d</groupId>
<artifactId>Automation</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<properties>
    <serenity.version>3.2.0</serenity.version>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
    <tags></tags>
    <parallel.tests>5</parallel.tests>
    <webdriver.base.url></webdriver.base.url>
    <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    <java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
        <artifactId>serenity-rest-assured</artifactId>
        <version>${serenity.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
        <artifactId>serenity-cucumber</artifactId>
        <version>${serenity.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
        <artifactId>serenity-junit</artifactId>
        <version>${serenity.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.googlecode.lambdaj</groupId>
        <artifactId>lambdaj</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.12.4</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.jettison</groupId>
        <artifactId>jettison</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-dbutils</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-dbutils</artifactId>
        <version>1.7</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
        <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
        <version>9.4.0.jre11</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
        <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.javafaker</groupId>
        <artifactId>javafaker</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
        <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
        <version>4.1.1</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
            <configuration>
                <skip>true</skip>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
            <configuration>
                <includes>
                    <include>**/*Runner.java</include>
                </includes>
                <systemPropertyVariables>
                    <webdriver.base.url>${webdriver.base.url}</webdriver.base.url>
                </systemPropertyVariables>
                <parallel>methods</parallel>
                <threadCount>${parallel.tests}</threadCount>
                <!-- <forkCount>${parallel.tests}</forkCount>-->
                <!--<useUnlimitedThreads>true</useUnlimitedThreads>-->
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>integration-test</goal>
                        <goal>verify</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.10.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>11</source>
                <target>11</target>
                <compilerArgs>
                    <arg>-parameters</arg>
                </compilerArgs>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>net.serenity-bdd.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>serenity-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${serenity.version}</version>
            <configuration>
                <tags>${tags}</tags>
                <reports>single-page-html</reports>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>serenity-reports</id>
                    <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>aggregate</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
                    <artifactId>serenity-single-page-report</artifactId>
                    <version>${serenity.version}</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

You can use tagging for that purpose. Information about that feature can be found in Serenity BDD official documentation.

Just a short excerpt, tags are added to jUnit tests using WithTag annotation. The following will add a tag of type feature (this is a default Serenity type) with name Reporting:

@WithTag(type="feature", name="Reporting")

Then you can run tests with this tag with jUnit like this:

mvn clean verify -Dtags="feature:Reporting"

First you have an exclusion for:

    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>

which should explain the "ClassNotFoundException: cucumber.runner.TimeServiceEventBus" error.

Further you have duplicate dependencies. You should really investigate all the warnings that Maven is giving you. And lastly, you are forcing possibly incompatible pieces of Serenity onto itself, by explicitly declaring individual bits of Serenity. Unless you have a particularly good reason for this, you should really avoid that!

In any case, the one simple dependency:

            <dependency>
                    <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
                    <artifactId>serenity-cucumber</artifactId>
                    <version>${serenity.version}</version>
            </dependency>

brings in everything you will need: all of Cucumber, all of Selenium, JUnit, and of course all of Serenity.

You can also use:

            <dependency>
                    <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
                    <artifactId>serenity-cucumber4</artifactId>
                    <version>${serenity.version}</version>
            </dependency>

note the extra 4 there, if you want to use Cucumber version 4. Although last time I checked (admittedly it has been a while), this was still experimental.

See mvn dependency:tree to make sure.

The issue was the period in By.xpath(".//td[2]") mentioned by GrassHopper to search a node's children

  List<WebElement> listOfRows2 = driver().findElement(By.xpath("//table/tbody")).waitUntilPresent().findElements(By.xpath("./tr"));
  for(WebElement rowElement : listOfRows2){
      System.out.println("getText: " + rowElement.getText());
      //This if statement is to check whether the row has the element or not, otherwise it will throw an error
      if(rowElement.findElements(By.xpath(".//a[contains(text(),'unique_cell_name')]").size() !=0){
        String name = rowElement.findElement(By.xpath(".//a[contains(text(),'unique_cell_name')]")).getText();
        System.out.println("name : " + name);
        if(name.equals('unique_cell_name')){
            rowElement.findElement(By.xpath(".//a[contains(text(),'unique_cell_name_to_row_but_not_table')]")).doSomething();
            //also want to check text in a specific column 5, where the same text might exist in the same row in the different column
            rowElement.findElement(By.xpath(".//td[2]")).doSomething();
            break;
        }
      }
      else{
        System.out.println("This is not the row you are looking for");
      }
  }

I got this running by adding @Custom-Tag on features file that I want to run and modified the config as follows.

package com.hero.selenium.test;

import io.cucumber.junit.CucumberOptions;
import net.serenitybdd.cucumber.CucumberWithSerenity;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

@RunWith(CucumberWithSerenity.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        monochrome = true,
        features = {"src/test/resources/features/"},
        glue = {"com.hero.selenium.test.stepdefinitions"},
        tags= "@Custom-Tag"
)
public class MainRunner {
}

Thanks @lojza for the guidance!

1. go to your repo location and check if the jar is properly downloaded.
2. unpack your WAR and check if the jar is actually available in it.
3. althoug your maven dependency looks fine, but just try using this: 
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
        <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
        <version>2.3</version>
    </dependency>
4. Make sure you do a mvn clean:install -P from command prompt location of the project.
5. I tried with the same dependency and it works fine with JBOSS too.

The above problem was solved by using following combination of dependencies:

    <dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
        <artifactId>serenity-cucumber</artifactId>
        <version>${serenity.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.13.2</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jeasy</groupId>
        <artifactId>easy-random-core</artifactId>
        <version>5.0.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
        <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
        <version>5.2.2</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.17.2</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
        <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.javafaker</groupId>
        <artifactId>javafaker</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>

Fortunately I am able to resolve this issue. With the latest Serenity version need to modify the page object class as below :

public class MobilePageObject extends PageObject {

    public MobilePageObject(final WebDriver driver) {
        super(driver, new Predicate<PageObject>() {
            @Override
            public boolean apply(PageObject page) {
                PageFactory.initElements(new AppiumFieldDecorator(((WebDriverFacade) page.getDriver()).getProxiedDriver()), page);

                return true;
            }
        });
    }
}

Also to get the proper Serenity reports use the command mvn verify command to execute the test.

Thanks for support!