add-acceptance-testing

What problem does it solve?

It eliminates the need to manually wire and maintain an acceptance-testing layer by automatically adding a Cucumber/BDD suite that runs real Spring Boot 4 application behavior in Given/When/Then form.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Acceptance test source set: Creates an acceptanceTest source set with correct classpaths and Gradle configurations.
• Cucumber + Spring wiring: Adds pinned Cucumber dependencies, a Spring test bridge, and a JUnit Platform suite runner suitable for BDD feature execution.
• Seed scenario and step state pattern: Generates a health endpoint feature, baseline step definitions, shared “World” state to avoid duplicate steps, and Cucumber properties for stable publishing behavior.
• Lifecycle integration: Registers an acceptanceTest task, hooks it into tasks.check, and updates JaCoCo reporting so the acceptance layer is included in verification.

Quick Start

Add the Cucumber/BDD acceptance test layer to your Spring Boot 4 project when you need a customer-visible Given/When/Then verification of real endpoints such as health.