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

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

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>

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

My bad, it appears to be a POM.xml configuration issue:

When using Serenity Rest-Assured, the POM.xml cannot contain the standalone Rest-Assured Dependency. Having both Serenity Rest-Assured and the standalone Rest-Assured libraries in the POM.xml will result in the error.

Enter the following property in serenity.properties file

webdriver.base.url = http://en.wiktionary.org

In your page object define the DefaultUrl like this

@DefaultUrl("/wiki/Wiktionary")
public class DictionaryPage extends PageObject {


}

Serenity will construct the complete URL while calling DefaultUrl.

For further reference on all the properties available in serenity.properties please refer link below https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-documentation/blob/master/src/asciidoc/system-props.adoc

WebdriverIO is a JavaScript / nodejs implementation of the (Selenium 2.0) WebDriver API - one of many (Selendroid, Protractor, etc.) As the specification says:

WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. It provides a platform- and language-neutral wire protocol as a way for out-of-process programs to remotely instruct the behaviour of web browsers.

If you use Java, you'll use the Java implementation of WebDriver. Which language, and which implementation you choose, is up to you, your skills, and the skill of your team.

Though I very much doubt that WebdriverIO is "not mature enough". WebDriver is a fine spec, with a number of powerful implementations, but it is very frequently misused. Certainly as far as newbies go, a very large proportion of "random" failures are completely avoidable race conditions within their test code.

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

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.