In this post, we will discuss jbehave annotations @BeforeStories and @AfterStories . If you are familiar with TestNG framework these annotations are somewhat similar to @BeforeSuite and @AfterSuite.

The @BeforeStories and @AfterStories annotations allow the methods to be executed before and after stories respectively. Also, any initialization code before executing stories goes into @BeforeStories method. In addition, any clean-up code that needs to be run after all the stories have run goes into @AfterStories. Furthermore, the below picture attempts to clarify the concept.

 

Any initialization setup code should be written in this annotated method. For example, opening a db connection, reading and setting Jbehave configuration etc…

 

Example code snippets:

@BeforeStories
public void storiesInit() {
    System.out.println("BeforeStories......");
    // initialization setup code goes here …. This code executes before all stories 
    // for example you may open a db connection etc...
}

 

@AfterStories
public void storiesCleanUp() {
System.out.println("AfterStories......");
// cleanup code goes here …. This code executes after all stories have run
// for example you may archive run reports , close db connection etc...
}

 

All the cleanup code should go here in this code block. This code executes after all the stories have run. Examples that go here are closing db connections , archiving the results , sending stats metrics, any clean up code that you may be interested in