Not able to use GivenStories having Examples table in story files about jbehave-junit-runner

[AndreasEK]

Okay, this probably won't work yet. Another complication in the logic for the scenarioReporter :) Thanks for reporting this!

Just out of curiosity: what's your use-case for combining given stories and examples tables?

[jopombar]

Hi Andreas,
Thank you for working on such a great tool. I went ahead and cleaned up my flow, there was no need to have examples tables in the GivenStories only on the story using the GivenStories. Here how to reproduce now:

• Have a story that uses GivenStories that is parameterized with an example table
• Have the GivenStory also parameterized with the values coming from the example table from the parent story

This flow works just fine with jBehave-Web but it throws the exception above when using JUnitReportingRunner. My use case is the following:

• I'm testing a webApp
• I'm testing a feature of the webApp for example generateReports functionality. I can select different type of reports (this is where I use the parent's parameterization)
• To do anything in the webApp the user needs to login first. Here is where I call GivenStories: baseLogin.story
• We have different types of users in the webApp (admin, regular, etc). This is where I need GivenStory parameterization, to provide the user type in the parent story

[dschneller]

Intriguing. Could you post the relevant sections of your story files? I haven't used parameterized GivenStories yet, would like to see what you have done. Also, it would give is a test case :)

[AndreasEK]

At the same time I noticed, that the test suite AfterStories is not green anymore. Somewhere the test case counting went haywire. Opening new bug for that.

[jopombar]

@daniel, take a look at "given_stories_parametrised_by_examples.story" on the jbehave-trader-example (jbehave-core/examples/trader). This story has the structure I'm taking about. There are other good GivenStories examples there as well. Let me know if you still want me to post my stories

@andreas,
The fix works and my stories run. Thanks a lot! :-)
If I want to be picky I do have the following to report:

• Multi level GivenStories don't show on the JUnit window. Only the first GivenStory shows but if this GivenStory has a GivenStory that one doesn't show
• The steps of the GivenStory don't show. There is only 1 line with the story name and it doesn't have a check mark even though it ran successfully.

I would consider these "enhancements" since the feature now works. This might be related Issue #16 you opened. Let me know if you want me to add that detail there or open a new issue

[AndreasEK]

Hi,

glad that this is fixed for you :)

About your pickiness. You are absolutely right. I knew about the second point, but haven't even thought about nesting Given Stories :) The technical background is, that while we're building the test execution tree for JUnit prior to executing it, we only get the given story as a path, so we would have to somehow parse it. I don't know yet how to do that with JBehave. Maybe it's not that difficult. So please, if you don't mind, create two enhancements.

Thanks and enjoy your weekend. Hope you have such a great weather as we in Germany do.

Andreas