Add a warning for Windows developers

The tests won't work if you don't have "Developer Mode" enabled. See #1852

Co-authored-by: Aurelien Reeves <aurelien.reeves@smartbear.com>

features/support/hooks.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import tmp from 'tmp'
 import { doesHaveValue } from '../../src/value_checker'
 import { World } from './world'
 import { ITestCaseHookParameter } from '../../src/support_code_library_builder/types'
+import { warnUserAboutEnablingDeveloperMode } from './warn_user_about_enabling_developer_mode'
 
 const projectPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..')
 
@@ -39,7 +40,11 @@ Before(function (
  '@cucumber',
  'cucumber'
  )
- fsExtra.ensureSymlinkSync(projectPath, tmpDirCucumberPath)
+ try {
+ fsExtra.ensureSymlinkSync(projectPath, tmpDirCucumberPath)
+ } catch (error) {
+ warnUserAboutEnablingDeveloperMode(error)
+ }
  this.localExecutablePath = path.join(projectPath, 'bin', 'cucumber-js')
 })
 

features/support/warn_user_about_enabling_developer_mode.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { reindent } from 'reindent-template-literals'
+import colors from 'colors/safe'
+
+export function warnUserAboutEnablingDeveloperMode(error: any): void {
+ if (!(error?.code === 'EPERM')) {
+ throw error
+ }
+ if (!(process.platform === 'win32')) {
+ throw error
+ }
+
+ console.error(
+ colors.red(
+ reindent(`
+ Error: Unable to run feature tests!
+ 
+ You need to enable Developer Mode in Windows to run Cucumber JS's feature tests.
+
+ See this link for more info: 
+ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/developer-mode-features-and-debugging
+ `)
+ )
+ )
+ process.exit(1)
+}