Check this description of the "GivenStories" keyword: http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/given-stories.html
The whole point with the keyword "GivenStories" is to do exactly that: run the dependency before each dependent story. If what you need is just to have the stories run in sequence (A -> B -> C), then the "GivenStories" keyword is not what you want to use. From: Zheng, Ayesha(AWF) [mailto:xuzh...@ebay.com] Sent: den 12 september 2014 03:53 To: user@jbehave.codehaus.org Subject: [jbehave-user] Stories' Dependency Hi all, I have a problem with stories' dependency. Example: I have A,B,C stories, and stories B, C depends on A. (B->A, C->A). I add "GivenStories: A.story" in both B.story and C.story to do this, then run these 3 stories. I found A.story run for 3 times. I want to make A,B,C stories run only one time and keep dependency at the same time. (Like testng: dependsOnMethods) Does JBehave support this? Thanks very much. Best Regards, Ayesha