Running generic stories via a web-based interface

The Web Runner provides a simple web-based interface to running generic stories. A typical use case is for BAs, QAs or stakeholders to be able to access the results of story running without needing access to developer resources.

A fully functional example webapp is provided in trader runner example. We'll be using this example to illustrate the use of Web Runner:

• Customise Web Runner
• Deploy webapp to your favourite webapp container
• Open page http://localhost:8080/trader-runner (assuming normal port conventions)
• On Menu, click on Run Story, which will take you to a page where you can enter your textual story.
• Input textual story in textarea (e.g you can cut & paste the scenario found in the trader scenario) and click on Run Story link.
• Upon execution, the output of the story is shown below. By default the same output is shown as the one you would see when running JBehave via a command-line interface. This includes any details of failed and pending steps. If any failures occur, the user has be option to expand the stack trace.