What's wrong with a dedicated steps class for the start/stop operations? They are annotated methods, and thus steps, just as well.
The JUnitStories class is only meant to configure and execute stories, not to hold executable methods. It also provides the hook for IDEs which support JUnit. The Maven plugin knows nothing of JUnit and its annotations. If you're trying to go down this route you're likely to hit a brick wall. Cheers On 24 Sep 2013, at 15:18, "Corbin, J.D." <[email protected]> wrote: > As it turns out, we don't. We are starting and stopping a server that is > required by our BDD scenarios and didn't want to put that logic in any step > classes. The logical place to manage the starting and stopping of the > server, we believed, was in our class that extends JUnitStories. We had > hoped there were some annotated lifecycle methods we could use for this, and > in fact did find that the JUnit @BeforeClass and @AfterClass methods worked > but only when you run the JUnitStories derived class as JUnit. I couldn't > figure out how to configure the JBEHAVE-MAVEN-PLUGIN to run the class as a > JUnit like we do in Eclipse. > > For now, we can construct and start the server in the constructor of the > aforementioned class. THe shutdown of the server will happen when the JVM > goes away. This is not ideal but will work for us. > > So, we could use the JUnit specific annotations if we could get them to > execute when running our JUnitStories class via the maven plugin. > > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Mauro Talevi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Why do need to put the before/after methods in Embeddable class and not in a >> steps class? >> >> On 23 Sep 2013, at 22:39, "Corbin, J.D." <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, that does work for an InstanceStepsFactory, but we are using a >>> GuiceStepsFactory. I'll have to see if there is a way to extend this >>> factory to support this. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Mauro Talevi <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> The JBehave lifecycle annotations must found in the steps classes. That >>>> said, you can register your class as a steps class. Just pass the "this" >>>> reference to the InstanceStepsFactory. >>>> >>>> On 23 Sep 2013, at 21:35, "Corbin, J.D." <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a class that extends JUnitStories and specifies two methods that >>>>> use the JUnit specific annotations @BeforeClass @AfterClass. Inside of >>>>> these methods I do some initialization for my test scenarios, like >>>>> propping up a test server. So the BeforeClass method starts the server >>>>> and the AfterClass method shuts down the server. >>>>> >>>>> When I run the class that extends JUnitStories as a JUnit test, it >>>>> executes the methods annotated with the beforeclass and afterclass just >>>>> as you might expect. All scenarios execute and succeed when running in >>>>> this manner. >>>>> >>>>> Now, when I run using maven (command line) and the jbehave-maven-plugin, >>>>> the JUnit (not really surprising) specific annotations are not executed >>>>> and therefore my server startup and shutdown logic is bypassed which >>>>> prevents my scenarios from executing. >>>>> >>>>> How can I run the JBehave scenarios from the command line using Maven >>>>> such that my JUnit (or JBehave specific) annotated methods get executed? >>>>> >>>>> I have tried using JBehave specific annotations like @BeforeStories, >>>>> @AfterStories,@BeforeTest, and @AfterTest (as well) in my class that >>>>> extends JUnitStories, but none of the methods with these annotations ever >>>>> get executed, either when running in Eclipse (as JUnit), nor Maven. >>>>> >>>>> Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. >
