How to use embeddablesSkipped method of net.serenitybdd.jbehave.embedders.monitors.ReportingEmbedderMonitor class

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.

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

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

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

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 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?

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.

If you are using Maven take a look at Maven Failsafe plugin Rerun Failing Tests feature:

http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/rerun-failing-tests.html

You can do following in build.gradle, so when ever you run

task runSpecificRunner(type: Test) {

    include '**/**YOURRunnerName.class'
}

Then run ./gradlew runSpecificRunner aggregate, you will see only that specific runner will be executed.

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.