Serenity jBehave

You need to add an instance of ContextStoryReporter to your configuration:

configuration.storyReporterBuilder().withReporters(new ContextStoryReporter(context));

I do not know what was wrong but it is working now after restarting my IDE. My IDE was running for a while (more then a week).

Reading the extra comment / improves question, it sounds indeed like an Integration Test.

There are some need Integration Test libraries like JBehave, Serenity, Cucumber, etc which would probably better for setting this up.

With TestNG, you could create 3 tests, where each next test depends on the previous test. See code sample below, from testng dependency test

package com.mkyong.testng.examples.dependency;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class App {

    @Test
    public void method1() {
        System.out.println("This is method 1");
    }

    @Test(dependsOnMethods = { "method1" })
    public void method2() {
        System.out.println("This is method 2");
    }

}

Here the most simple dependency is show. See the sample code for more complex cases, like groups etc. For setting up two test classes each with their own @Factory

Add dependency to pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-platform-engine</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0</version>
</dependency>

See if reverting to previous version of jbehave helps . There seems to be a bug with the 4.0.4 . See this link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jbehave-dev/7OxwmOXZPVk

I could not make it run with using configuredEmbedder() but by adding -Dmetafilter="+working -finished" as goals in my mvn run configurations and using the tags @working for scenarios I'm working with and which I want to run and @finsihed for scenarios I don't want to execute. Still I have to change the run configuration if I want to change the meta tags so it is not very comfortable but still I get what I was looking for.

This worked to me:

The JBehave API seems to have changed, it seems you now need to add the ScenarioType parameter:

@BeforeScenario(uponType = ScenarioType.ANY)
public void setTheStage() {
    OnStage.setTheStage(new OnlineCast());
}

Source: https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-jbehave/issues/117

I found the answer. The driver confguration used by the framework is held in the serenity.properties file associated with the project.

If you need to continue after a failed step, you should use soft assertions.