How to use createCandidateSteps method of net.serenitybdd.jbehave.SerenityStepFactory class

We found our issue was that in the Scenario line some of our test cases looked like

Scenario: XXX-#9056: Change password to special characters

Instead of

Scenario: XXX- 9056: Change password to special characters

So having the pound symbol(#) on the line with Scenario was messing it up. It doesn't matter if it is under the meta tag. Now none of the skipped test are showing in the report.

Dev of Karate here. I guess you mean the cucumber-reports-plugin.

First: I have never experimented with rendering links, but it looks doable, for e.g refer to this thread: https://github.com/damianszczepanik/cucumber-reporting/issues/610

Second: Karate has enhanced cucumber tags so that name-value-pairs are supported, so even within a test you would be able to grab the value of a tag, here is an example: tags.feature.

In current state of Karate you can certainly get the value of the tag and generate a hyperlink. Rendering a hyperlink into the HTML report may need some digging.

You can retrieve the ExampleTable parameter like this (and have more readable given annotations):

@Given("that I sell the following fruit $exampleTable")
public void thatISellTheFollowingFruit(ExamplesTable exampleTable) {
    System.out.println("MyTable: "+exampleTable.asString());
}

If it doesn't find the declared method and tells you that this step is pending, you could check if you have a whitespace in your story after the word fruit:

Given that I sell the following fruit 

How to access the several rows and columns in your tables is written in the jBehave documentation under http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/tabular-parameters.html

You could also think about creating only one table instead of three:

Scenario: a scenario with embedded tables
Given I sell <product1> 
And the price is <product1price>
And I sell <product2> 
And the price is <product2price>
When I sell something
Then the total cost should be <total>
Examples:
| product1 | product1price | product2 | product2price | total |
| apples   | 5.00          | carrot   | 6.50          | 11.50 |
| apples   | 5.00          | pears    | 6.00          | 11.00 |
| potatoe  | 4.00          | carrot   | 9.50          | 13.50

The java code would have to look like this to access the parameters:

@Given("I sell <product1>")
public void iSellProduct(@Named("product1") String product1) {
    //do something with product1
}

Does this help? If not, what exactly does not work when you try to read the exampleTable?

Serenity has this feature now

18. Running Serenity tests in parallel batches

http://thucydides.info/docs/serenity-staging/#_running_serenity_tests_in_parallel_batches

A issue has been raised (including quick fix) with the bdd serenity-jbehave version 1.8.0 and higher:

issue #109

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).

Fail at end should work in your scenario.

Basic Def from Maven Specs :

--fail-at-end - if a particular module build fails, continue the rest of the reactor
           and report all failed modules at the end instead .

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.

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

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