Add Meta Filters for JBehave Story

Meta filters in JBehave are very useful when we want to run only small subset of test scenarios across multiple Story files. 

For instance when there are 100 tests spread across 5 different Story files and we want to run just 20 tests (4 tests from each of the 5 stories). If we have Meta-tags defined, we just have to specify the tags for the tests we want to run or skip.

To enable filtering via Meta tags in JBehave, just add the following 3 lines in your Stories.java class, under the Stories() Constructor.

public Stories() {

  configuredEmbedder().embedderControls()
  .doGenerateViewAfterStories(true)
  .doIgnoreFailureInStories(true)
  .doIgnoreFailureInView(true)
  .useThreads(2)
  .useStoryTimeoutInSecs(300);

      //Custom Config >> Added to enable Meta tag based filtering
        List<String> metaFilters = new ArrayList<String>();
        metaFilters.add(System.getProperty("metaFilters", "-skip"));
        configuredEmbedder().useMetaFilters(metaFilters);

    }

@SKIP - this is the meta tag that can now be added to any test to skip its execution.

Refer this post to run JBehave stories by specifying Meta filters via Maven