How to selectively run stories tagged with multiple words in a meta field with jBehave

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Prerequisites

  1. a working jBehave based project

This short tutorial is based on an jbehave-tutorial project available on github: https://github.com/jbehave/jbehave-tutorial .

To be precise I used the java-spring submodule from the etsy-selenium module, available here: https://github.com/jbehave/jbehave-tutorial/tree/master/etsy-selenium/java-spring , to run the modified story presented below.

  1. Maven

OK, let’s consider a situation when we have stories belonging to multiple features, categories etc.
Below is an example story, tagged with multiple categories and features: anExampleStoryWithMultipleWordsInAMetaKeyword.story

Meta: @categories category1 category2 category3
@features feature1 feature2 feature3 feature_4 
Scenario: scenario description Given I'm on the homepage ....

Now, we’d like to run stories only for a selected category or a feature. To accomplish this we’ll use the value pattern matching mechanism implemented in the jBehave meta matcher and described on jBehave Meta Matchers reference page.

Usage examples

Run stories covering only category3:

mvn clean install -Dmeta.filter="+categories *category3*"

Run stories covering only feature_4:

mvn clean install -Dmeta.filter="+features *feature_4*"

And finally, run stories matching feature2 and category1:

mvn clean install -Dmeta.filter="+features *feature2* +categories *category1*"

Notice

It seems that jBehave is not handling - hyphens in the keyword value properly, but it works fine with _ underscores, separate words and camelCase notation :)