How to use hasHighPriority method of net.serenitybdd.cucumber.service.CucumberTagProviderStrategy class

I would avoid coupling features as you suggest as much as possible.

Your first feature is about creating data and validating that the creation process is correct.

Your second feature is about working with data that you expect are available in the system.

My approach would be to have support code that create the data for each scenario when needed. This support code would setup the system in the expected state before any execution.

This might lead to duplication. Personally I would accept duplication in favour for readability. This would also introduce flexibility in this case. The coupled executions you are asking for will force you to execute everything every time. You would not ba able to execute a single scenario easily when trouble shooting.

BDD and Cucumber is all about human readable communication.

Clarity trumps DRY.

İ have solved the issue through making the constructor in the step definition file empty, defining the driver variable as static in the hook definition file and instantiating as a class object in the step definition file where İ called the getDriver method.

İt seems that serenity needs an empty constructor in the step definition file.

Take a look at Serenity BDD properties here.

There are serenity.verbose.steps and serenity.logging properties which you might find useful.

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.

Have you tried with version 1.1.42?

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.

You just need to add the endScenario method´s package to the glue in your CucumberOptions

@CucumberOptions(
    features = { ... },
    plugin = { ... },
    glue = {"...", "com.company.project.your.package"}
)

compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-chrome-driver', version: '3.0.1'

I'm not using Selenium. I'm using Gradle, Cucumber, Serenity.

You're using the wrong value for parallel. You have to set it to methods or both. Otherwise Surefire will run all tests of your runner class serially.

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/tree/main/cucumber-junit

Cucumber JUnit supports parallel execution of feature files across multiple threads. To enable this with maven set the parallel property to either methods or both.

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <!-- Use 2.22.1 or higher -->
            <version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</version>  
            <configuration>
                <parallel>both</parallel>
                <threadCount>4</threadCount>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>