Introduction

In this post, we will look at the step-to-step of Installing the JBehave Eclipse Plugin. JBehave Eclipse Plugin provides JBehave Story Editor with syntax highlighting, step auto-completion, and lookup. Its features are as below:

Steps to Install JBehave Plugin

How to Install the JBehave Eclipse Plugin:

Step to step guide to installing the plugin is as follows:

Launch Eclipse on your machine.
Go to Help > Install New Software…as shown in the below picture.

Eclipse_Install New Software JBehave

Add the new site location:

http://jbehave.org/reference/eclipse/updates/

Select the JBehave Eclipse plugin feature.
Click on the Next> button to proceed.
Click on the Finish button.

Add JBehave Eclipse Plugin

Read and Accept the end-user license agreement of the plugin and hit on the Finish button.

Installation might take a while depending on your network & machine speed.

Restart Eclipse

After the installation, Eclipse will prompt for a restart for the installation to be complete. Restart your eclipse. If you are in the middle of something choose to restart later.

Verify the installation by creating a new story after the restart as shown in the below screenshot.

JBehave Eclipse Plugin

To modify the preferences of the plugin go to Window > Preferences > JBehave

Also note that, If you’re behind a company firewall and cannot access the update site, you can download the Eclipse Repository and install it from a local archive.

Plugin Features

Eclipse plugin with a custom JBehave Story Editor features include:

Syntax highlighting
Hyperlink detection in steps and link to the corresponding Java method.
Step auto-completion
Validation, detecting both unimplemented steps and ambiguous steps, matching multiple methods, etc

Other features include the ability to set via a Preference page: