Timeout for steps

[volnoboy]

This is not a bug, but a feature request. I am using Jbehave.

I didn't find any feature similar to Junit: @test(timeout = 100)

Is it possible to have a timeout in @step annotation or generally set timeout for scenario or story?

story.timeout.in.secs - is not an option, it is not behaving correctly

[mithuns]

Are you keeping this property
story.timeout.in.secs=300
In serenity.properties file at the root of your project ?

[wakaleo]

story.timeout.in.secs is a JBehave attribute that is not actually related to individual story timeouts - it puts an absolute time limit on your whole test run, and crashes out of the JVM if this timeout is exceeded.

[wakaleo]

Hard timeouts on tests or steps are generally not a great idea - they are a common cause of flaky tests and random test failures, unless you set them extremely high (in which case, what’s the point?). If you really need this feature in one of your steps , why not just code it yourself in Java?

[volnoboy]

I keep everything in serenity.properties file. Look, we need this feature, I have already coded it myself. The solution with @step annotation would be much cleaner. For monitoring production in real time, this is very useful.

[wakaleo]

Happy to review a pull request.