@Stepwise behavior inheritance to subclasses

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 183

Describe the enhancement you have in mind.
Make sure the @Stepwise behavior is also inherited by subclasses.

Which particular problem would this enhancement solve for you?
Below is an example scenario

1) read xml
2) validate xml. if xml is not valid then stop executing step 3 and 4
3) unmarshall xml to pojo
4) assert that data is properly copied over

I will have more than 100 feature tests with the same flow as above and I want all
of them to not execute steps 3 and 4 if step is not satisfied. I defined steps 1 and
2 in base spec and marked it with @Stepwise. I then added a sub spec and defined steps
3 and 4. But steps 3 and 4 are still being executed eventhough step 2 from base class
is failing.

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Reported by yaravind on 2011-05-26 18:33:17

No source file or test is named. Start by locating the @Stepwise implementation and existing inheritance-related tests, then reproduce the base-spec and subclass scenario described here; done means steps 3 and 4 stop executing when step 2 in the base spec fails.