@Rakesh Vardan, I think you need to profile creation of performable stories to identify actual bottleneck. The provided timing is not enough, since it shows slowness, but it doesn't show where it happens. Another option is to provide project example to reproduce the issue.

@Valery Yatsynovich, We could observe that the delay is in the 'addStories()' method in 'PerformableTree' class.

For each story the flow is traversing from PerformableTree -> addStories -> loop here for each story -> performableStory -> performableScenario -> addExampleScenario/useNormalScenario

And the result of which is added to the below map.
private Map<String, PerformableTree.PerformableStory> stories = new LinkedHashMap();

I tested this with a count of 270+ stories. From the below log we can identify that it took around 12+ min to create the map before which actual test execution started.

[INFO] Properties location [config/environments/${env}/mtaf-jbehave-tools.properties] not resolvable: class path resource [config/environments/qa2/mtaf-jbehave-tools.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist
[INFO] JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring
[main] 25 Dec 2018 11:51:27,938 INFO : com.mastercard.quality.engineering.mtaf.jbehave.configuration.MastercardJBehaveStories - Creating bean Format[]
[main] 25 Dec 2018 11:51:27,960 INFO : com.mastercard.quality.engineering.mtaf.jbehave.configuration.MastercardJBehaveStories - Creating bean Format[]
[main] 25 Dec 2018 11:51:27,961 INFO : com.mastercard.testing.gdp.api.stories.GdpRestStories - We are using the story timeout period of 7200 seconds.
[INFO] Refreshing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@4972ed7f: startup date Tue Dec 25 11:51:27 CST 2018; root of context hierarchy
[INFO] Properties location [config/environments/${env}/mtaf-jbehave-tools.properties] not resolvable: class path resource [config/environments/qa2/mtaf-jbehave-tools.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist
[INFO] JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring
[INFO] Running embeddable com.mastercard.testing.gdp.api.stories.GdpRestStories
[INFO] Processing system properties {java.awt.headless=true}
[INFO] System property 'java.awt.headless' set to 'true'
[INFO] Using controls UnmodifiableEmbedderControls[EmbedderControls[batch=false,skip=false,generateViewAfterStories=true,ignoreFailureInStories=true,ignoreFailureInView=false,verboseFailures=false,verboseFiltering=false,storyTimeouts=7200,threads=1,failOnStoryTimeout=false]]
[INFO] Connection object is 1354656260, URL=jdbcostgresql://ech-10-157-148-129.mastercard.int:5432/postgres?currentSchema=gdp_owner, UserName=postgres, PostgreSQL Native Driver
[INFO] Running story stories/B2B/F45858_B2B_Email_Templates/S368726_S368721_B2B_Email_Templates.story
[pool-2-thread-1] 25 Dec 2018 12:03:32,429 INFO : com.mastercard.quality.engineering.mtaf.jbehave.reporters.LoggingStoryReporter - =====================================================
[pool-2-thread-1] 25 Dec 2018 12:03:32,441 INFO : com.mastercard.quality.engineering.mtaf.jbehave.reporters.LoggingStoryReporter - Begin Story: S368726_S368721_B2B_Email_Templates.story

Please help.

@Rakesh Vardan, the provided logs don't give much information:

• they are overloaded with irrelevant data

• they don't show actual timings

Apologies for delayed response.

Attached the logs. Please search with 'DELAYED EXECUTION' in the logs file to see where the delay is there. Kindly suggest if we need to modify any config.

Please provide logs