JBehave is a BDD framework for Java and all JVM languages (Groovy, Kotlin, 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 Github Actions server for JBehave builds.

At compile-time, JDK 11 is required to build JBehave modules

At runtime, end users can use JDK 8 or above in their own projects that use JBehave for testing.

Maven version required to build: 3.6 or above (while tested with 3.6.x it may also work with previous 3.x versions)

Some additional setup may be required to build the

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

Maven is supported in all major IDEs, including Intellij IDEA and Eclipse.

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).