How to use configuration method of net.serenitybdd.jbehave.SerenityStories class

Serenity has this feature now

18. Running Serenity tests in parallel batches

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

The "and etc." you reference probably has some more relevant info. Going by what you have, though, this looks like you have multiple dependencies on guava, and not all of them are the same version. (Note that some of them may be transitive dependencies: those that are included as a dependency by another dependency).

The maven-enforcer-plugin detects when a single library has multiple versions specified, and it breaks the build. If you're just trying to run a quick test, though, you can probably add -Denforcer.skip=true. This is not recommended for long-term use, but only for running your single test.

Long-term, you will ultimately need to use Maven's dependencyManagement to force a specific version of Guava to be used, overriding the version mismatch.

I solved the issue by upgrading the Serenity Maven Plugin from:

2.0.89

to:

2.1.8

It would seem that Serenity will pick up on steps brought in through dependencies all on its own, so no need for anything fancy.

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.

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

I solved this using the following hack (basically injecting the service(s) myself):

@ContextConfiguration(locations = "test-beans.xml", 
                      loader = TestContextLoader.class)
public class GreetingServiceTest extends SerenityStories {

    @Autowired
    private GreetingService greetingService;

    private String greeting;

    @When("I want a greeting")
    public void whenIWantAGreeting() {
        greeting = greetingService.getGreeting();
    }

    @Then("I shall be greeted with \"$greeting\"")
    public void thenIShallBeGreetedWith(String greeting) {
        assertEquals(greeting, this.greeting);
    }

    @Override
    public InjectableStepsFactory stepsFactory() {
        return new InstanceStepsFactory(configuration(), this);
    }

    @BeforeStories
    public final void beforeStories() {
        AutowireCapableBeanFactory beanFactory = getContext().getAutowireCapableBeanFactory();
        beanFactory.autowireBeanProperties(this, AutowireCapableBeanFactory.AUTOWIRE_NO, false);
        beanFactory.initializeBean(this, getClass().getName());
    }

    private ApplicationContext getContext() {
        return SpringClassRuleHack.getTestContextManager(getClass())
            .getTestContext()
            .getApplicationContext();
    }
}

SpringClassRuleHack (must be the same package as SpringClassRule to get access to the getTestContextManager method):

package org.springframework.test.context.junit4.rules;

import org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager;

public final class SpringClassRuleHack {

   private SpringClassRuleHack() {}

   public static TestContextManager getTestContextManager(Class<?> testClass) {
      return SpringClassRule.getTestContextManager(testClass);
   }

}

I'm getting the Spring context through SpringClassRule so that it gets cached by Spring, letting Spring control when the context needs reloading (if I have understood correctly).

I'm not entirely satisfied with this solution and I suspect it's not equivalent to enabling SpringClassRule/SpringMethodRule in the standard way, but it works in my case.

You can try importing Spring libraries and create a singleton object for the driver your created. By this you can share the same browser session from anywhere. To have a new browser for the second instance, quit the browser session in the singleton object and redefine it.