Cucumber fails without giving error message
To improve your chances to get proper error messages, you can try
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- to start cucumber with the
-boption, so it shows a full backtrace - to start cucumber with the
-f prettyoption to get a more verbose formatter - to start cucumber with the
-doption to show debug information
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