How to use getDefaultReporters method of net.serenitybdd.junit.runners.SerenityRunner class

Check https://github.com/temyers/cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin There is stated:

As of cucumber-jvm:4.0.0 parallel execution is supported natively by cucumber. As such, upgrading to Cucumber 4.0.0 is recommended and this plugin is no longer maintained.

So consider leave cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin

It looks like you have in your pom.xml something like

<tags>"~@ignore"</tags>

try to change it to

    <tags>
      <tag>~@ignore</tag>
    </tags>

BTW proper new style is now not @ignore check https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/tree/master/tag-expressions#migrating-from-old-style-tags

You are able to use csv as it is a direct use txt file. If you want to use excel, need poi dependency which can help you to fetch excel data or create one. dependency groupId org.apache.poi artifactId poi version 3.14

If this is like the popups that I've dealt with they work like this:

1. Customer comes to site and the site checks for the existence of a cookie. If that cookie exists, the popup is never launched (ideal state). If that cookie does NOT exist (typical state), after a specified period of time a popup appears.
2. Customer dismisses the popup and a cookie is created with an expiration time
3. Once that expiration time passes, the cookie expires and the popup will fire again

You need to do some investigation and find the cookie that is created once the popup is dismissed. Clear your cache, browse to the site, and note all the cookies that exist. Wait for the popup and dismiss it. Now find the cookie that was just created and examine it. This is the cookie you need to create. There are a lot of tutorials on creating cookies. It's pretty straightforward.

Once you learn how to create the cookie, you add it to your script as described below:

1. Navigate to some page on the domain that you know doesn't exist, e.g. www.domain.com/some404page. We do this because it won't trigger the popup countdown and we need to be on the domain to create the cookie.
2. Create the cookie
3. Do your normal test

No more popups.

You can have your own runner in serenity and instantiate driver with your desired capabilities for it. By doing so you can configure and redirect logs.

@RunWith(CucumberWithSerenity.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        plugin = {"pretty"},
        features = "<feature file path>",
        glue = {"<steps path as comma separated values"}
)
public class MyRunner {

       }

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 also configure it in serenity.conf file

So something like that;

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

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.

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>

maven-failsafe-plugin has no notion of "packages". The notion of "suites" is related to junit4 Suite.

To solve my problem above, I did the following:

In each "features.area" I created a "TestSuiteStub":

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Suite;

/**
 * This will be processed by groovy-maven-plugin.
 */
@RunWith(Suite.class)
@Suite.SuiteClasses({
/* add test Stories after this ANCHOR */
})
public class TestSuiteStub {
    /* Suite holder */
}

I then used the groovy-maven-plugin with execute goal and the following script:

// find all TestSuiteStub.java
new File("${project.build.testSourceDirectory}/features").  // exploits the "complication" in Maven interpolation and GStrings
  traverse(type: groovy.io.FileType.FILES, nameFilter: ~/TestSuiteStub\.java/) { stub ->
    println 'Using: ' + stub

    // in the same dir as TestSuiteStub.java, find all *Story.java
    def stories = new StringBuilder()
    new File(stub.parent).
      eachFileMatch(groovy.io.FileType.FILES, ~/.*Story\.java/) { story ->
        stories.append story.name.replace('java', 'class')
        stories.append ', ' // will leave a comma at end of list, but javac seems to be ok with that
      }
    println 'Found: ' + stories

    // write out TestSuite.java
    def suite = new File(stub.parent + '/TestSuite.java')
    suite.delete()
    println 'Writing: ' + suite
    stub.eachLine() { line ->

      if(line.contains('Stub'))
        suite.append line.replace('TestSuiteStub', 'TestSuite') + System.getProperty('line.separator')
      else
        suite.append line + System.getProperty('line.separator')

      if(line.contains('ANCHOR'))
        suite.append stories + System.getProperty('line.separator')
    }
  }

This will process each of the TestSuiteStub and generate a TestSuite. So after running this (you can use mvn test-compile to run this, without running your tests), I have something like:

src/test/java
+-features.areaA
| +-SomeStory.java
| +-AnotherStory.java
| ...
| +-TestSuiteStub.java
| +-TestSuite.java
+-features.areaB
| +-DifferentStory.java
| +-OtherStory.java
| ...
| +-TestSuiteStub.java
| +-TestSuite.java
...

where the first TestSuite will look something like:

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Suite;

/**
 * This class will be processed by groovy-maven-plugin.
 */
@RunWith(Suite.class)
@Suite.SuiteClasses({
/* add test Stories after this ANCHOR */
SomeStory.class, AnotherStory.class,
})
public class TestSuite {
    /* Suite holder */
}

To make maven-failsafe-plugin pick this up, I configured it like this:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${failsafe.plugin.version}</version>
  <configuration>
    <includes>
      <include>features.*.*Suite</include>
    </includes>
    <parallel>suites</parallel>
    <threadCountSuites>4</threadCountSuites>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <goals>
        <goal>integration-test</goal>
        <goal>verify</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Lastly I also added *Suite.java to my .gitignore.