Interesting. Let me forward it to my team and see what we come up with.
I'll report back soon.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Mauro Talevi <mauro.tal...@aquilonia.org>wrote:

>  I understand the goals and I can see why you'd want this feature.    I'd
> like to find a solution that does not involve code duplication.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to have a generics-enabled RunnableStories<T> class that
> we can use for both JUnit and TestNG.
>
> Maybe playing with proxies (e.g. proxytoys)?    Perhaps we could provide a
> generated class (generated by a Ant/Maven goal) that can be extended.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 06/11/2012 03:22, Justin Holmes wrote:
>
> Goals driving this feature request:
> 1) Client code doesn't need to bring in the JUnit dependency if it plans
> to use TestNG
> 2) Client code doesn't need to manage its own TestNGStories (As in the
> trader example) or override the run method each time
>
>  Sounds like TestNGStory/TestNGStories are more trouble than they are
> worth for the framework, so I'll continue to meet these goals on the
> client-side.
>
>  Thanks for your time and attention.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Mauro Talevi 
> <mauro.tal...@aquilonia.org>wrote:
>
>> Yes, your point is understood.  But apart from the name, what is your
>> concern about using JUnitStory directly with the JUnit annotation?
>>
>> My concern is the unnecessary duplication of code and support of another
>> dependency for no appreciable gain.
>>
>> We're using the @Test annotation for the bare minimum boostrap a single
>> execution of stories, not unit tests.  So the features that would normally
>> bring you to prefer TestNG over JUnit for unit testing don't apply here.
>>
>> What would using TestNG provide that JUnit does not in running JBehave
>> stories?
>>
>>
>> On Fri Nov  2 19:04:59 2012, Justin Holmes wrote:
>>
>>>  Are you referring to
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jbehave/jbehave-core/blob/master/examples/trader-testng/src/main/java/org/jbehave/examples/trader/testng/TestNGTraderStories.java
>>> ?
>>> If you dig down the class hierarchy, it inherits from JUnitStories and
>>> then overrides the run method. Although it is simply a matter of
>>> switching an import statement, I think it would be nice to say that
>>> JBehave also support TestNG "out-of-the-box" via a TestNGStory and
>>> TestNGStories.
>>>
>>> If there are no concerns, I would be happy to submit a pull request
>>> myself.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Mauro Talevi
>>>  <mauro.tal...@aquilonia.org <mailto:mauro.tal...@aquilonia.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     That's correct.   It's really nothing to do with JUnit nor with
>>>     unit testing.  It's simply a hook to bootstrap the execution of
>>>     the stories.
>>>
>>>     We could try to make it more generic in 4.x, but I'm not entirely
>>>     sure it's top priority.
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 02/11/2012 18:09, Alexander Lehmann wrote:
>>>
>>>         there is a testng example in the examples directory in the
>>>         jbehave-core source, this essentially uses a testng @Test
>>>         annotation for the run method, inheriting from the Stories
>>>         class, however I assume it doesn't call any of the junit methods.
>>>
>>>         On 01.11.2012 21:36, Justin Holmes wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hello Devs,
>>>
>>>             I'm on a project that uses TestNG as its Unit test
>>>             framework so I'd like
>>>             to leverage it for JBehave. I've seen ways to do that (e.g.
>>>              http://jbehave.org/reference/__preview/faq.html
>>>
>>>             <http://jbehave.org/reference/preview/faq.html> ) but its
>>>             just seems
>>>             unnatural to extend a class "JUnitStories" if I'm not
>>>             using JUnit. I've
>>>             searched through the jira and the mail list, but can't
>>>             find a specific
>>>             reference to this question. Is there a particular reason that
>>>             TestNGStory/Stories does not exists in jbehave-core? Maybe
>>>             dependency
>>>             issues? If there is not, I'd be happy to submit a pull
>>>             request and add
>>>             the feature.
>>>
>>>
>>>             - Justin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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