Introduction

In this tutorial, let us see how to install the Serenity JBehave project from the command line using Maven. Tools required for this are: Maven, Eclipse, and m2e ( Maven plugin)

Requirements

Install Eclipse

Maven

Setting up Maven

Maven Integration plugin : m2e

Let’s start

First things first, create a directory for your project.
For example c:\SerenityProject

Change directory to the folder.

Issue the following command to generate the Serenity JBehave project from archetype.

mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=net.serenity-bdd:serenity-jbehave-archetype

 

Enter project details like artifactId,groupID etc.

Install Log:

[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
1: remote -> net.serenity-bdd:serenity-jbehave-archetype (Serenity automated acceptance testing project using Selenium 2, JUnit and JBehave)
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): : 1
Choose net.serenity-bdd:serenity-jbehave-archetype version:
1: 1.0.2
2: 1.0.6
3: 1.0.7
4: 1.0.8
5: 1.1.7
6: 1.1.17
7: 1.1.18
8: 1.1.19
9: 1.1.20
10: 1.1.36
11: 1.1.38
12: 1.2.0
13: 1.5.4
14: 1.6.9
15: 1.7.0
16: 1.8.4
Choose a number: 16: 16
Define value for property 'groupId': com.testingdocs.serenity
Define value for property 'artifactId': SerenityJBehaveProject
Define value for property 'version' 1.0-SNAPSHOT: :
Define value for property 'package' com.testingdocs.serenity: :
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: com.testingdocs.serenity
artifactId: SerenityJBehaveProject
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: com.testingdocs.serenity
Y: :
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Archetype: 
serenity-jbehave-archetype:1.8.4
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.testingdocs.serenity
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: SerenityJBehaveProject
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.testingdocs.serenity
[INFO] Parameter: packageInPathFormat, Value: com/testingdocs/serenity
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.testingdocs.serenity
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.testingdocs.serenity
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: SerenityJBehaveProject
[INFO] Project created from Archetype in dir: C:\SerenityProject\SerenityJBehaveProject
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

 

Import the project

Now Import the project into Eclipse IDE.

Launch Eclipse >> File >> Import…

 

 

In Import Wizard select >> Existing Maven Projects

Click on Next> button.

Browse and select the Serenity Projects directory.

Click on the Finish button.

Eclipse would set up the project.

 

 

It may take a while to download all the dependencies. Please be patient.

Once the project is created in Eclipse, you can start working on the project. Note that the project created is a default general project. You have to work on the project as per your automation needs.

See also:

If you are comfortable with creating projects with an IDE:

JBehave Serenity BDD project

 

JBehave Tutorials on this website can be found at:
https://www.testingdocs.com/jbehave-framework-tutorial/

For more details on the JBehave framework, visit the official JBehave website at:
http://jbehave.org