Introduction

In this post, we will discuss JBehave MostUsefulConfiguration. MostUsefulConfiguration is the configuration that works for most situations that we are likely to encounter. Most of the elements configured with this configuration. However, we can change these configuration elements if we don’t like the default ones. It extends from an abstract class Configuration.

Configuration Abstract class

The Configuration class is used by the Embedder and the in the Embeddable implementations to customize it’s runtime properties. It implements a Builder pattern so that each element of the configuration can be specified individually, and read well. All elements have default values, which can be overridden by the use methods. The use methods allow to override the dependencies one by one.

Class Diagram

More Information here:

http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/javadoc/core/org/jbehave/core/configuration/MostUsefulConfiguration.html

If we need custom based components, we can extend Configuration to provide custom components.
For example:

public class CustomConfiguration extends Configuration { … }

Another example is SeleniumConfiguration. It extends Configuration to provide Selenium-based components. It can be used for both Selenium and WebDriver API as shown below.

public class SeleniumConfiguration extends Configuration {…

We may need to override the parent class method.

Sample code snippet

@Override
    public Configuration configuration() {
        return new SeleniumConfiguration()
                .useWebDriverProvider(driverProvider)
                .useSeleniumContext(seleniumContext).useFailureStrategy(
new FailingUponPendingStep())
                .useStoryControls(new StoryControls().doResetStateBeforeScenario(false)
.doIgnoreMetaFiltersIfGivenStory(true))
                .useStoryLoader(new LoadFromClasspath(this.getClass().getClassLoader()))
                .useStoryReporterBuilder(new MyStoryReporter()
                        .withCodeLocation(CodeLocations.codeLocationFromPath(getClassPath()))
                        .withDefaultFormats()
                        .withFormats(Format.CONSOLE, Format.HTML));
    }

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https://www.testingdocs.com/jbehave-framework-tutorial/

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http://jbehave.org