Question: I try to perform some Cucumber tests of a Spring boot application.

It seems like Spring Boot is not started before tests are running. 

What am i missing?

<https://bitbucket.org/oakstair/spring-boot-cucumber-example>

Answer: 
My Cucumber repo still runs without doing all the above steps: 

<https://github.com/BarathArivazhagan/Cucumber-spring-integration>

Docs : <https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-testing.html>

To add more: 

1. `@SpringBootTest` takes care of loading the application context in that case `@ContextConfiguration` is reductant.
2. Spring test automatically provides a bean of `TestRestTemplate` which can be autowired but still it should work with RestTemplate also.
3. It still runs without `RANDOM_PORT` but RANDOM port can be also used in conjunction for testing.
I found the problem and has updated the repo. 

I did the following to get it working:

* Added `RANDOM_PORT` to `@SpringBootTest`
* Added `@ContextConfiguration`
* Switched from `RestTemplate` to `TestRestTemplate`