JBehave's syntax is supported by the RegexStoryParser:
A story is a collection of scenarios Narrative: In order to communicate effectively to the business some functionality As a development team I want to use Behaviour-Driven Development Lifecycle: Before: Scope: STORY Given a step that is executed before each story Scope: SCENARIO Given a step that is executed before each scenario Scope: STEP Given a step that is executed before each scenario step After: Scope: STEP Given a step that is executed after each scenario step Scope: SCENARIO Outcome: ANY Given a step that is executed after each scenario regardless of outcome Outcome: SUCCESS Given a step that is executed after each successful scenario Outcome: FAILURE Given a step that is executed after each failed scenario Scope: STORY Outcome: ANY Given a step that is executed after each story regardless of outcome Outcome: SUCCESS Given a step that is executed after each successful story Outcome: FAILURE Given a step that is executed after each failed story Examples: |story-level-precondition| |cba | |zyx | Scenario: A scenario is a collection of executable steps of different type Given a [story-level-precondition] Given step represents a precondition to an event When step represents the occurrence of the event Then step represents the outcome of the event Scenario: Another scenario exploring different combination of events Given a [precondition] When a negative event occurs Then a the outcome should [be-captured] Examples: |precondition|be-captured | |abc |be captured | |xyz |not be captured|
Gherkin syntax is supported by the GherkinStoryParser:
Feature: A story is a collection of scenarios
Narrative:
In order to communicate effectively to the business some functionality
As a development team
I want to use Behaviour-Driven Development
Background:
Given a step that is executed before each scenario
Scenario: A scenario is a collection of executable steps of different type
Given step represents a precondition to an event
When step represents the occurrence of the event
Then step represents the outcome of the event
Scenario Outline: Another scenario exploring different combination of events
Given a [precondition]
When a negative event occurs
Then a the outcome should [be-captured]
Examples:
|precondition|be-captured|
|abc|be captured |
|xyz|not be captured|
The Gherkin syntax is supported via story transformers, that use the Gherkin parser to transform the syntax to JBehave's.
Note that Gherkin's Background element corresponds to the JBehave Lifecycle Before scenario-scoped element. JBehave also supports Lifecycle story-scoped elements and After element which are not currently available in Gherkin.