JBehave is a BDD framework for Java and all JVM languages (Groovy, Ruby, Scala).

Canonical information for JBehave:

1. Web Site.
2. Stable Reference.
3. User mailing list
4. Search Maven

Please report issues, feature requests on JIRA or discuss them on the dev mailing list.

Keep an eye on the Travis CI server for JBehave builds.

JDK version required:

1.7 or above at build and runtime (tested with Oracle JDK on different platforms)

Maven version required to build: 3.0 or above.

Configure IDE to use UTF-8 for all files Configure Maven by adding "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" to $MAVEN_OPTS

Maven is supported in Intellij IDEA out-of-the-box Maven is supported in Eclipse via m2e plugin, included out-of-the-box in some Eclipse distributions. Eclipse users may also want to load the ides/eclipse/lifecycle-mapping-metadata.xml or ignore the m2e lifecycle mappings manually.

The first time you run the Maven build, do:

mvn install -s settings.xml

After that, it is necessary to only do the following:

mvn install

• default: builds all releasable modules
• examples: builds all headless examples
• gui: builds examples that require a GUI (i.e. non-headless) mode (separated as they do not run on CI.
• nt: no-test, builds skipping unit-test behaviors

• reporting: builds reports
• distribution: builds distribution (documentation)

Note: profiles are additive and the default profile is always active.

mvn install -Pexamples

mvn install -Preporting,distribution

mvn release:prepare -Preporting,distribution
mvn release:perform -Preporting,distribution

See also:

• jbehave-pom JBehave POM
• jbehave-web web extensions to JBehave
• jbehave-osgi OSGi extensions to JBehave
• jbehave-eclipse Eclipse integration for JBehave
• jbehave-tutorial for an example of JBehave testing of a real web application.

See LICENSE.txt in the source root (BSD).