Serenity report has wrong number of test cases when failure in "Background"

[zelite]

What happened?

I am executing a bdd test which uses the package net.serenitybdd.screenplay.rest.
When an error happens in a step called in the Background section, the serenity report displays the wrong number of total test cases. It seems to list each step as a test case.

What did you expect to happen?

I expect the test case number to be correct. Otherwise the reports are of little value.

Serenity BDD version

4.1.20

JDK version

openjdk 17.0.11 2024-04-16

Execution environment

Windows 10. No browser is used in tests.

When trying to reproduce the bug, I noticed it only happens when using the net.serenitybdd.screenplay.rest module.

How to reproduce the bug.

I have this repo based on the serenity cucumber starter. Clone this https://github.com/zelite/serenity-cucumber-starter-master and run mvn clean verify

How can we make it happen?

Add it to the Serenity BDD backlog and wait for a volunteer to pick it up