External properties not loaded in Cucumber-JVM

Question

I am facing the following issue: I have the following java config classes for my BDD suite - the testrunner and the main configuration class which defines PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer.

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@ContextConfiguration("Config.class")
class TestRunner {}


@Configuration
@ComponentScan(value ="com.*")
@PropertySource("classpath:file.properties")
public class Config {

    @Bean
    public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer() {
    return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
}

}

In my stepDefs file I am trying to access a property from the *.properties file and it is not being picked up.

public class TestStepdefs {

@Value("${property}")
public String property;

@Given("^Test$")
public void test() throws Throwable {
    System.out.println(property);
}
}

I mention that in the pom file i have included the cucumber-spring dependency.

Any thoughts ?