How to use ThucydidesRunner class of net.thucydides.junit.runners package

Did you try using driver.quit() after running your feature file to close the session?

You can also configure it in serenity.conf file

So something like that;

# Remote
webdriver {
  driver = remote
  remote {
      url="http://localhost:4445/wd/hub"
      driver=chrome
  }
}

Answer 11 from this Stack Overflow question solved my problem

Apparently you have to run the class containing the test, and not the test itself.

Add dependency to pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-platform-engine</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0</version>
</dependency>

You can set priority in this way

        @Test(priority = 1,alwaysRun = true)
        public void rentalhomesHomePage() throws InterruptedException {
            //Your test case

        }

Actually Serenity provides another runner - SerenityParameterizedRunner which seems to have the same features as JUnit's Parameterized.

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>

Unfortunately Serenity is not supported by basic JUnit 5 so I had to use JUnit 5 Vintage only. It can run JUnit 4 tests. It works now.