GherkinScenarioFactory not execute any test case - cucumber-jvm

Question

I use cucumber testNG for my project and and already added some configuration based on Configuring BDD for execution and QAF Cucumber but when i run it, GherkinScenarioFactory not run any test.
[main] ERROR com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.PropertyUtil - resources\application.properties (The system cannot find the path specified)
[main] INFO com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager - ISFW build info: {qaf-Type=core, qaf-Revision=15, qaf-Version=2.1, qaf-Build-Time=20-N
ov-2019 22:28:06}
[main] ERROR com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager - D:\Automation\resources not exist!
include groups []
exclude groups: [] Scanarios location: resources/features
[main] INFO com.qmetry.qaf.automation.step.client.gherkin.GherkinScenarioFactory - scenario.file.loc[Ljava.lang.String;#400cff1a
[main] INFO com.qmetry.qaf.automation.step.client.gherkin.GherkinScenarioFactory - total test found: 0
I've added the dependency qaf and also qaf-cucumber with version 2.1.15. I've also added the #QAFTestStepProvider annotation in the step file. Here's my testng.xml file :
<suite name="MyTest">
<test name="ComparationTest" >
<parameter name="step.provider.pkg" value="com.example.steps" />
<parameter name="scenario.file.loc" value="resources/features" />
<classes>
<class name="com.qmetry.qaf.automation.step.client.gherkin.GherkinScenarioFactory" />
</classes>
</test>
in the feature file I added : Examples: {'datafile': 'resources/data/data.xls'}
and last in cucumber runner I added plugin "com.qmetry.qaf.automation.cucumber.QAFCucumberPlugin"
I'm still learing, can somebody tell me what did i miss?

Answer 1

It looks that you are pointing to wrong location for resources and feature file/directory. You need to provide relative path to project root directory for resources and scenarios directory. If you observe the log also complains that fie/folder not exist.
[main] ERROR com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.PropertyUtil - resources\application.properties (The system cannot find the path specified)
[main] INFO com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager - ISFW build info: {qaf-Type=core, qaf-Revision=15, qaf-Version=2.1, qaf-Build-Time=20-N
ov-2019 22:28:06}
[main] ERROR com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager - D:\Automation\resources not exist!
Make sure that you have resources directory under project root.
Regarding feature files, according to your current configuration
scenario.file.loc is resources/features. In that case make sure that <project-root>/resources/features is exist. For example your project root is D:/Automation then resources/features points to D:/Automation//resources/features
If not then provide correct relative path to project root.
For example resources/features expects <project-root>/resources/features if it is not there provide correct location.
Same is applied for other resources including properties file and test data files.
For application.properties it is expected under <project_root>\resources\application.properties if it is not there you can provide location by using system property application.properties=<relateive_path_to_project> or alternately place under default location <project_root>\resources.
As a side note,
instead of GherkinScenarioFactory recommended is BDD2 factory com.qmetry.qaf.automation.step.client.text.BDDTestFactory2
Latest version of qaf as of today is 3.1.0-RC1 the version you are using 2.1.15 is quite old.