jbehave run only specific story - selenium

Question

I have jbehave integrated with Selenium. I am running my tests through command line as below
C:\eclipse_workspace\MySeleniumTests>mvn clean test -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox.exe"
I have used jbehave-maven-plugin. Maven picks up all the Embedder impl (JunitStories in my case) from the source directory and execute them one by one. Configuration for that is <include>**/*Stories.java</include> in pom.xml
It then looks for relevant .story files in the specified dir and executes them. Say, I have two story files one.story and two.story, both of them are executed.
Over a time, number of story files are going to increase I only want to execute specific story files should there be a way to do this? I am thinking to pass specific story file names as run time parameters but don’t know what is required to make that happen.

Answer 1

I got it working with the below code
mvn clean test -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox.exe" -Dstory=myStory.story
Override storyPaths() method in embedder class as below.
public class MyTestStories extends JUnitStories /* InjectableEmbedder */{
#Override
protected List<String> storyPaths() {
List<String> storiesToRun = new ArrayList<String>();
String storyProperty = System.getProperty("story");
if (storyProperty == null || storyProperty.isEmpty()) {
throw new RuntimeException("Please specify which stories to run");
}
String[] storyNames = storyProperty.split(",");
StoryFinder sf = new StoryFinder();
URL baseUrl = CodeLocations.codeLocationFromClass(this.getClass());
for (String storyName : storyNames) {
storiesToRun.addAll(sf.findPaths(baseUrl, storyName, ""));
}
return storiesToRun;
}

Answer 2

Try the following:
mvn clean test -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox.exe" -Djbehave.story.name=<story filename without extension (wildcards are supported)>
You should also use custom test suite implementation:
public abstract class JBehaveTestSuite extends ThucydidesJUnitStories {
private static final String STORY_NAME_PATTERN = "**/${jbehave.story.name:*}.story";
public JBehaveTestSuite() {
findStoriesCalled(storyNamesFromEnvironmentVariable());
}
#Override
public void run() throws Throwable {
super.run();
}
private String storyNamesFromEnvironmentVariable() {
return SystemPropertyUtils.resolvePlaceholders(STORY_NAME_PATTERN);
}
}