Steps marked as pending, after reorganising testrunners

[eriklumbela]

background
I have the following Serenity JBehave project layout: (in the testrunners directory are my classes extending SerenityStory)

src
|-- test
    |-- java
        |-- com.company.team
            |-- definitionsteps
            |-- usersteps
            |-- testrunners
    |-- resources
        |-- stories
            |-- epic1
            |-- epic2

problem
Once I try to reorganise my testrunners into subfolders, so that it reflects resources/stories/{epics} all my steps are marked as PENDING.
In the documentation I read that:

Serenity will run any JBehave stories that it finds in the default directory location. By convention, it will look for a stories folder on your classpath, so ‘src/test/resources/stories’ is a good place to put your story files.

So I guessed reorganising shouldn't resolve into PENDING steps.
What do I need to configure to prevent this from happening?

reproduce

src
|-- test
    |-- java
        |-- com.company.team
            |-- definitionsteps
            |-- usersteps
            |-- testrunners
                |-- epic1
                |-- epic2
    |-- resources
        |-- stories
            |-- epic1
            |-- epic2

[eriklumbela]

@wakaleo Have you got any suggestions how to solve this?

[wakaleo]

Not really. It sounds like a project configuration issue of some kind - maybe the JBehave runners aren't finding the step definition methods.

[eriklumbela]

Thanks for your fast reply. Too bad. Does this also mean, this is supposed to work out of the box.
(Then I guess, I have to to go over the pom.xml and figure out what's wrong)

[wakaleo]

Looking at your project structure, you may need the test runner classes to be in the top level package for the default paths to work.